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DdC · 04-13-2006, 03:43 AM

Mama Coca wants Colombia's fumigation to end

Sign a petition to end anti-drug sprays

Further Reading

* Spray campaigns under fire
* Death spray legal defense
* Latin America rejecting US drug war
* Bolivian peasants or narco-terrorists?

A Colombian boy shows blisters on his face caused by herbicide spray

The Colombian drug reform organization Mama Coca is asking people everywhere to sign their online petition to end US-sponsored Arial fumigation of drug crops in their country that has murdered children, deformed fetuses, poisoned and killed livestock, destroyed food crops, and ravaged the environment.

Maternal DDE Exposure Increases Risk of Premature Birth
There is new evidence of an association between increased DDE (a DDT metabolite) levels in the mother’s blood and highe r risk for delivering premature or smaller than normal babies. Researchers analyzed DDE levels in blood samples that were collected from pregnant women from 1959-1966, when DDT was still widely used in the U.S.

They found that the odds of a woman delivering a preterm or small baby increased with higher DDE serum levels. Premature birth is known to increase infant mortality. This new finding raises serious concerns for the health of pregnant women and their babies in countries where DDT is still used. DDT has been banned or restricted in industrialized countries since the 1970s, but is still widely used in many countries for control of mosquito-borne diseases.

Longnecker, MP et al., "Association between maternal serum concentration of the DDT metabolite DDE and preterm and small- for-gestational-age babies at birth". The Lancet 348:110-114 (2001).

»Lead Exposure Linked to Lou Gherig's Disease
»PCB Exposure in Older Adults Linked to Memory and Learning Impairments
»Long-term Pesticide Exposure Found to Impair Cognitive Function
»Exposure to Mixtures of Persistent Organochlorines May Contribute to Breast Cancer

WHERE'S THE HEMP? By John E. Dvorak, Hempologist

DeLay Pesticidal Killers

COMMON ARSENICAL PESTICIDE UNDER SCRUTINY
According to the U.S. EPA, MSMA "can reasonably be anticipated to cause cancer in humans" and is converted in the environment to inorganic arsenic, a known human carcinogen. About 4 million pounds of MSMA is applied every year to golf courses and cotton fields in the United States to control weeds. The pesticide has been banned in India and Indonesia.

Origins and History of Hemp

• Originating from Central Asia, hemp was probably the first plant cultivated for use of its fiber
• The oldest evidence of cultivated hemp fiber dates back to 8000 B.C.
• While first embraced by ancient Chineese cultures, hemp spread west and was used throughout India, Egypt and later Europe
• Animals have also done their part to spread hemp, as birds eat and pass seeds along their global migrations
• United States Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp

3 Parts of Hemp

• Seed
• Fiber
• Hurd, or woody inner core

Many uses of Hemp

• Oil • Textiles • Food • Paper & packaging
• Rope & cordage • Building fiber • Fuel & lubricants
• Paints & sealants • Plastics and polymers
• Furniture • Energy & biomass

Farming

• Grows well without herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides
• Grows 6 to 11 feet tall in 110 days
• Its deep-root system can prevent erosion
• Grows tall and provides its own natural shade and defense against weeds
• Its usable fiber located in the stalk is cultivated while the energy rich leaves and buds are returned to enrich the soil

Hemp v. Trees

• Hemp grown for paper and construction fiber can help reduce deforestation, and prevent pollution and degradation of our environment from harsh chemicals and erosion
• Hemp can be recycled 7 times while maintaining a suitable substrate and surface for modern printing purposes, compared with 3 times for tree paper
• Hemp fiberboard was found to be twice as strong as wood-based fiberboard in a Washington State University study
• Hemp produces more pulp per acre than timber, therefore is more sustainable
• Hemp's low lignin content reduces the need for acids used in pulping
• Hemp paper resists decomposition and does not yellow with age when an acid-free process is used
• Because of its natural color, hemp can be bleached in environmentally friendly ways instead of using harsh chlorine compounds

Hemp v. Cotton

• Hemp is much more sustainable than cotton, it is stronger, yields more fiber per acre, and can be grown organically.
• Hemp has eight times the tensile strength and four times the durability of cotton
• Hemp fiber is longer, stronger, more absorbent and insulates much better than cotton fiber
• While hemp requires little to no chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers, cotton consumes 7% of the world’s fertilizers, and 26% of the world’s chemical pesticides
• In the United States, more than half of the chemical pesticides used in agriculture are used on cotton
• Per acre, hemp can create 2 to 3 times more fiber than cotton

Hemp as food

• Nutritionally rich and high in protein, hemp seed and hemp seed oil has been an ideal food source and consumed worldwide by many cultures in Asia, India, and Africa for thousands of years.
• Hemp seed can be a cheap and sustainable source of protein and is rich in nutritionally important Omega-6 and Omega-3 fatty acids, B-vitamins, contains vitamins A, C, and E, Beta Carotene, and is high in dietary fiber
• Hemp seed is easily grown organically, not requiring any pesticides, fertilizers, or chemicals
• Hemp seed is used in bird seed, and can be a nutritionally valuable in use as feed for chickens and other livestock

Hemp as fuel

• Can be turned into methane, methanol, and gasoline much cheaper than fossil fuels
• Reduce the environmental costs of fossil fuels and nuclear energy, such as hazardous wastes, acid rain, and smog

Other Hemp uses

• Oil can be used to make paints, varnishes, soaps, cosmetics, ointments, lotions, heating oil, engine lubricants, lacquer, sealants, plastic resins, etc
• Can be blended with recycled plastics to make injection-molded products
• Can be used to make cellophane packaging

Poison Inc. Pesticides v Hemp
Victims/Injured by Pesticide/Chemical Poisoning
Symptoms of Pesticide Poisoning
Stories of Poisonings

It is difficult to get a man to understand something
when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair

Hemp vs Cotton

Organic Cannabis/Tobacco vs Chemical Cigarettes

Organic aid for cocaine addiction

Pest Control without Pesticides by Bill Baue
Children’s Health Environmental Coalition

Children's Health
An Exploratory Analysis of the Effect of Pesticide Exposure on the Risk of Spontaneous Abortion in an Ontario Farm Population

Leading Edge International Research Group Home Page.
Planetary and Social Paradigm Analysis and Discussion

The hemphasis.net website may be the most complete and concise discussion of industrial hemp on the web. Hemphasis magazine is the only hemp-centered journal currently published (in a print medium) in North America, to our knowledge.

It seems that once a person is informed and educated about hemp, that person doesn't just wish to be a hemp consumer, but actually gets involved in the hemp "movement."
Krista Mikulski

Hemp Information

Chronology of Hemp
A year-by-year march through the history of man's use of hemp.
(Scroll past chart, or click here.)

04-13-2006, 03:43 AM	#2 (permalink)
DdC Old School Status: Online Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posts: 1,525 Blog Entries: 3 Thanks: 0 Thanked 287 Times in 192 Posts	Mama Coca wants Colombia's fumigation to end Sign a petition to end anti-drug sprays Further Reading * Spray campaigns under fire * Death spray legal defense * Latin America rejecting US drug war * Bolivian peasants or narco-terrorists? A Colombian boy shows blisters on his face caused by herbicide spray The Colombian drug reform organization Mama Coca is asking people everywhere to sign their online petition to end US-sponsored Arial fumigation of drug crops in their country that has murdered children, deformed fetuses, poisoned and killed livestock, destroyed food crops, and ravaged the environment. Maternal DDE Exposure Increases Risk of Premature Birth There is new evidence of an association between increased DDE (a DDT metabolite) levels in the mother’s blood and highe r risk for delivering premature or smaller than normal babies. Researchers analyzed DDE levels in blood samples that were collected from pregnant women from 1959-1966, when DDT was still widely used in the U.S. They found that the odds of a woman delivering a preterm or small baby increased with higher DDE serum levels. Premature birth is known to increase infant mortality. This new finding raises serious concerns for the health of pregnant women and their babies in countries where DDT is still used. DDT has been banned or restricted in industrialized countries since the 1970s, but is still widely used in many countries for control of mosquito-borne diseases. Longnecker, MP et al., "Association between maternal serum concentration of the DDT metabolite DDE and preterm and small- for-gestational-age babies at birth". The Lancet 348:110-114 (2001). »Lead Exposure Linked to Lou Gherig's Disease »PCB Exposure in Older Adults Linked to Memory and Learning Impairments »Long-term Pesticide Exposure Found to Impair Cognitive Function »Exposure to Mixtures of Persistent Organochlorines May Contribute to Breast Cancer WHERE'S THE HEMP? By John E. Dvorak, Hempologist DeLay Pesticidal Killers COMMON ARSENICAL PESTICIDE UNDER SCRUTINY According to the U.S. EPA, MSMA "can reasonably be anticipated to cause cancer in humans" and is converted in the environment to inorganic arsenic, a known human carcinogen. About 4 million pounds of MSMA is applied every year to golf courses and cotton fields in the United States to control weeds. The pesticide has been banned in India and Indonesia. Origins and History of Hemp • Originating from Central Asia, hemp was probably the first plant cultivated for use of its fiber • The oldest evidence of cultivated hemp fiber dates back to 8000 B.C. • While first embraced by ancient Chineese cultures, hemp spread west and was used throughout India, Egypt and later Europe • Animals have also done their part to spread hemp, as birds eat and pass seeds along their global migrations • United States Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp 3 Parts of Hemp • Seed • Fiber • Hurd, or woody inner core Many uses of Hemp • Oil • Textiles • Food • Paper & packaging • Rope & cordage • Building fiber • Fuel & lubricants • Paints & sealants • Plastics and polymers • Furniture • Energy & biomass Farming • Grows well without herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides • Grows 6 to 11 feet tall in 110 days • Its deep-root system can prevent erosion • Grows tall and provides its own natural shade and defense against weeds • Its usable fiber located in the stalk is cultivated while the energy rich leaves and buds are returned to enrich the soil Hemp v. Trees • Hemp grown for paper and construction fiber can help reduce deforestation, and prevent pollution and degradation of our environment from harsh chemicals and erosion • Hemp can be recycled 7 times while maintaining a suitable substrate and surface for modern printing purposes, compared with 3 times for tree paper • Hemp fiberboard was found to be twice as strong as wood-based fiberboard in a Washington State University study • Hemp produces more pulp per acre than timber, therefore is more sustainable • Hemp's low lignin content reduces the need for acids used in pulping • Hemp paper resists decomposition and does not yellow with age when an acid-free process is used • Because of its natural color, hemp can be bleached in environmentally friendly ways instead of using harsh chlorine compounds Hemp v. Cotton • Hemp is much more sustainable than cotton, it is stronger, yields more fiber per acre, and can be grown organically. • Hemp has eight times the tensile strength and four times the durability of cotton • Hemp fiber is longer, stronger, more absorbent and insulates much better than cotton fiber • While hemp requires little to no chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers, cotton consumes 7% of the world’s fertilizers, and 26% of the world’s chemical pesticides • In the United States, more than half of the chemical pesticides used in agriculture are used on cotton • Per acre, hemp can create 2 to 3 times more fiber than cotton Hemp as food • Nutritionally rich and high in protein, hemp seed and hemp seed oil has been an ideal food source and consumed worldwide by many cultures in Asia, India, and Africa for thousands of years. • Hemp seed can be a cheap and sustainable source of protein and is rich in nutritionally important Omega-6 and Omega-3 fatty acids, B-vitamins, contains vitamins A, C, and E, Beta Carotene, and is high in dietary fiber • Hemp seed is easily grown organically, not requiring any pesticides, fertilizers, or chemicals • Hemp seed is used in bird seed, and can be a nutritionally valuable in use as feed for chickens and other livestock Hemp as fuel • Can be turned into methane, methanol, and gasoline much cheaper than fossil fuels • Reduce the environmental costs of fossil fuels and nuclear energy, such as hazardous wastes, acid rain, and smog Other Hemp uses • Oil can be used to make paints, varnishes, soaps, cosmetics, ointments, lotions, heating oil, engine lubricants, lacquer, sealants, plastic resins, etc • Can be blended with recycled plastics to make injection-molded products • Can be used to make cellophane packaging Poison Inc. Pesticides v Hemp Victims/Injured by Pesticide/Chemical Poisoning Symptoms of Pesticide Poisoning Stories of Poisonings It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair Hemp vs Cotton Organic Cannabis/Tobacco vs Chemical Cigarettes Organic aid for cocaine addiction Pest Control without Pesticides by Bill Baue Children’s Health Environmental Coalition Children's Health An Exploratory Analysis of the Effect of Pesticide Exposure on the Risk of Spontaneous Abortion in an Ontario Farm Population Leading Edge International Research Group Home Page. Planetary and Social Paradigm Analysis and Discussion The hemphasis.net website may be the most complete and concise discussion of industrial hemp on the web. Hemphasis magazine is the only hemp-centered journal currently published (in a print medium) in North America, to our knowledge. It seems that once a person is informed and educated about hemp, that person doesn't just wish to be a hemp consumer, but actually gets involved in the hemp "movement." Krista Mikulski Hemp Information Chronology of Hemp A year-by-year march through the history of man's use of hemp. (Scroll past chart, or click here.)