Hemp Activists and “Truthers” Unite
Via the Bob Tuskin Radio Show:
After 11 years, the Florida Hemp Fest is back with a new twist.
Dennis “Murli” Watkins, who served four months of jail time for orchestrating a “doobie toss” at the event in 1994, is bringing back what used to be an annual celebration of marijuana and a protest for its legalization. —Gainesville Sun
Murli just so happens to be a supporter of the “truth.” When we were contacted by him to set up a table and to give a talk on various topics such as the Federal Reserve, fluoride, and 9/11 we gladly accepted.
Watkins said this year’s edition will touch on other, even more controversial issues than legalizing pot. “Hemp has been cultivated for thousands of years. Here it is almost 2012, and we’re still fighting this same stupid battle,” he said. “9/11 was an inside job and they’re worried about someone smoking a doobie. They’ve got to get their priorities in…
Canadian Automaker Develops Car Made Of Hemp
A group of Canadian companies have come together to design an electric car, dubbed the Kestrel, with a body sculpted from a super-tough composite produced from mats of hemp. A prototype is being tested, and the first 20 Kestrel cars will be delivered next year. No word on what sort of fumes are emitted by the tailpipe. Via CBC News:
Automotive pioneer Henry Ford first built a car made of hemp fibre and resin more than half a century ago. “It’s not an original idea,” Motive Industries president Nathan Armstrong said.
The Kestrel will be prototyped and tested later in August by Calgary-based Motive Industries Inc., a vehicle development firm focused on advanced materials and technologies, the company announced.
The compact car, which will hold a driver and up to three passengers, will have a top speed of 90 kilometres per hour and a range of 40 to 160 kilometers before needing to…
The Question of Questions
By Robert Singer
Can Jared Diamond’s “Geographic Determinism” answer “Yali’s ‘Cargo’ Question”: Why “they” are so rich and “we” are so poor?
Geographic Determinism: The shape and location of continents, flora, fauna, microbes, water, climate, topography determine history: Civilizations benefit because human populations with an east-west orientation (east-west) have a more consistent climate than those with a north-south orientation (Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared M. Diamond).
No, it cannot.
Civilizations benefit because God and the House of Rothschild so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son to the human populations with an east-west orientation, that whosoever believeth in him shall not have to obey the laws of nature.
Original sin entered the world when man went from trying to survive, to trying to justify his existence. “Cogito, ergo sum“, less ambiguously translated: “I am thinking, therefore I exist”, which is the foundation of Western philosophy.
Societies of civilized savages began when hunters and gatherers started farming and discovered toilet paper…
Hemp researcher believes it makes you live longer!
A Saskatchewan hemp farmer believes hemp plants have rare properties that can dramatically increase the lifespan of humans! “It’s one of the superfoods supplying a cornucopia of oils, proteins, fiber and phytonutrients,” says Morris Johnson, chief technical officer of Canada’s Lifespan Pharma.
He plans to work with the University of Saskatchewan’s “Research Group on Aging” to design a study, and he’ll also fund product-specific trials for hemp in the U.S. — but now he’s struggling against the stigma around hemp research. (To get high on hemp, you’d have to smoke a joint the size of a telephone pole…) “In a moment of sheer frustration, I created a logo with a hemp leaf and a red circle with a stroke through it…with the words, ‘I can’t believe it’s not marijuana.’”
Currently he’s resorted to testing hemp on high-performance horses, whose owners “have a history of looking for and applying new ways to keep their…
