Government Created The Plastic And Oil Pollution Problem By Banning Hemp by johnvibes

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Government Created The Plastic And Oil Pollution Problem By Banning Hemp
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<p>&nbsp;The recent <a href="https://thefreethoughtproject.com/city-makes-plastic-straws-from-restaurants-illegal-violators-will-face-jail-and-1000-fine/">ban of plastic straws</a> &nbsp;in numerous municipalities throughout California is a striking example &nbsp;of how the government passes revenue generating laws in a frantic &nbsp;attempt to solve problems of their own making. There is no doubt that plastic pollution is a serious problem that &nbsp;needs to be addressed by the people of the planet.&nbsp;</p>
<p>According to a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/news/new-plastics-economy-report-offers-blueprint-to-design-a-circular-future-for-plastics">report</a> published by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, <strong>by the year 2050, there will be more plastic in the oceans than there are fish</strong>. Right now, one garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the ocean every minute. This disturbing reality is underscored by the <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/scientists-confirm-the-existence-of-another-ocean-garbage-patch">recent discovery of another giant patch of plastic</a>—<strong>bigger than Mexico</strong>—floating &nbsp;in the South Pacific Sea. It was discovered by Captain Charles Moore, &nbsp;who found the North Pacific Garbage Patch in 1997.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The effects of this ocean epidemic are captured in videos of marine life being impaled, trapped or killed by plastic. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2J2qdOrW44">One distressing video</a> shows researchers in Costa Rica removing an entire plastic straw from the nostril of a sea turtle. In <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/08/13/fisherman-helps-whale-break-free-from-plastic-shopping-bag-on-video_n_7982466.html">another video</a>, &nbsp;a whale asks fishermen for help removing a plastic bag from its head &nbsp;and then appears to flap its fin in appreciation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>One million seabirds &nbsp;die each year from ingesting plastic debris, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/01/up-to-90-of-seabirds-have-plastic-in-their-guts-study-finds">up to 90 percent&nbsp;</a>have plastic in their guts. However, forcing people to pay fines for using plastic straws is not &nbsp;the solution. Instead, finding alternatives and cleaning up the existing &nbsp;mess in the oceans should be the focus.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Furthermore, the &nbsp;government should not be entrusted with solving this problem, as they &nbsp;are largely responsible for fact that plastic, instead of hemp, is used &nbsp;for most everyday products.</strong>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Although hemp was just officially made illegal in 1970 as a part of &nbsp;the Controlled Substances Act, it was not considered as a viable source &nbsp;for most commercial merchandise throughout the 20th century as a result &nbsp;of cannabis prohibition. Prior to cannabis prohibition, hemp was used &nbsp;for a surprising number of industrial products, including most paper, &nbsp;fabric, textiles, and paints. Oddly enough, the first cars were initially built to run on ethanol, &nbsp;or alcohol, which could also be derived from hemp.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Henry Ford even &nbsp;famously designed a car model that <a href="https://hightimes.com/culture/henry-fords-hemp-car/">ran on hemp</a> fuel and was partially built with hemp as well. Ford was actually not the only early auto inventor who had a vision &nbsp;of cars running on plant-based fuel. Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the &nbsp;Diesel engine, built his original model to run on biofuel, but the &nbsp;engine was modified to run on gasoline after his untimely and mysterious &nbsp;death.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Unfortunately, alcohol and cannabis prohibition made it impossible &nbsp;for these types of engines to be on the market, so the industry turned &nbsp;to gas and oil, which has had devastating consequences for the &nbsp;environment in just a short century.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The late cannabis activist Jack Herer suggested in his book <em>“The Emperor Wears No Clothes” </em>that &nbsp;one of the reasons why politicians got behind cannabis and hemp &nbsp;prohibition so unanimously, was because they were paid off by powerful &nbsp;lobbyists in industries that could be made obsolete by hemp.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>“If all fossil fuels and their derivatives, as well as trees for &nbsp;paper and construction, were banned in order to save the planet, reverse &nbsp;the Greenhouse Effect and stop deforestation; then there is only one &nbsp;known annually renewable natural resource that is capable of providing &nbsp;the overall majority of the world’s paper and textiles; meet all of the &nbsp;world’s transportation, industrial and home energy needs, while &nbsp;simultaneously reducing pollution, rebuilding the soil, and cleaning the &nbsp;atmosphere all at the same time… and that substance is—the same one &nbsp;that did it all before—Cannabis Hemp… Marijuana!”</em> <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Herer">Herer said</a> in his book.&nbsp;</p>
<p>As the Free Thought Project has reported, <a href="https://thefreethoughtproject.com/nevada-legalizes-commercial-hemp/">hemp production</a>—if it were legalized nationally—could replace a number of products that pollute the environment&nbsp;</p>
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@pushpen ·
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@mielia ·
Wow, such a well condensed short article with yet so many infos!
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@luegenbaron ·
Very interesting!
I'm interested in packaging material made of hemp and biodegradable plastics but the majority says it's not ready for industry.
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@funbobby51 ·
Mitch McConnell has finally come out of his shell and proposed an act to legalize hemp farming in America 

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s2667/summary
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@keniza ·
"If it were legalized nationally—could replace a number of products that pollute the environment" is completely true.  Thanks for this post.  I hope a lot more people will start to wake up. 
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@woodparker ·
we all need to sit back and think on it , why we have create it
we have just created it for making human life easy not of the nature which has created us.
If we have not stopped it may be the day not so far where we only see earth of plastic , no life will exist on it .
plastic in the fields ,no crop will grow
plastic in the water , no more water to drink 
plastic in the air ,no air for breath

I hope every individual human of the world have to take pledge for create eco friendly  system for generation now and come together .

Perhaps none of us would like to give this earth as a garbage for our upcoming generation.
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@steemrehab ·
I completely agree with you. Hemp is the best solution for leaving behind disposable plastic. 
What you are describing is the law of politicians: when a politician sets out to do something, they usually end doing the opposite thing they intended to achieve.
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@mkmangold1 ·
We pay the cost of our grandfathers' sins. The obvious question is, "what gives the government the right to ban ANYTHING?
I think all of those California towns are just flapping their lips, anyway. China and Indonesia account for 90% of the plastic polluting our oceans. We need to focus on them, not a restaurant in Seaside, CA.
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