: About Me

The hemp plant has for millenia been man's best friend among plants. The outer bast fibres have clothed us, given us rope and sail for our ships, been used for string, and, often after being worn and used, they have been recycled into paper. This would seem like a rather efficient programme; but that is the problem. The tycoons who benefit from over consumption grow rich as they get us to use more. Without hemp fibres in our clothing and paper, we use cotton and wood instead. Both demand a much greater use of chemicals; cotton uses up to 50% of the world's pesticides, and wood pulp process...