Canada's Cannabis Car

This morning, I found videos on http://www.youtube.com. These videos contained interviews with Barack Obama on the Letterman show. He said he has tried to smoke marijuana himself. Also, Bill Clinton said in an interview that he has smoked marijuana at least twice in his life.

Canada's Cannabis Car trips me out. A body shell made of hemp is a strange thing.

god i bet the employees of that company are SO stoned.

Actually they have been playing with Hemp for a long long time, the clothes the poineers wore crossing the west as well as the cover of the covered wagons were made out of hemp, the first draft of the US constitution was made out of hemp paper and the first american flag was made out of hemp. Hemp rope as been around for a long time as well. The fiber that comes from hemp producitn is extremely strong, so using it in a fiberglass way only makes sense

when I was a teenager and we were in need of the green we used to call the cannabis car lol 1-800-weed!!!

Cotton industry lobbied hard to keep hemp illegal didnt they? Even industrial hemp?

can't imagine going over the border in that thing

the biggest two foes of hemp was Dow Chemicals and Hearst Newspapers I believe
Hearst I know for a fact, Dow not sure.
There is so much you can do with the weed

I agree. Hemp has many uses. Some of us may have played computer strategy games such as games about trade and ancient China. There were some uses for hemp and hemp trade in ancient China, I believe. This mind growing strategy game involves mules carrying heavy loads. It also involves setting up trades between different Chinese cities with products such as: hemp, silk, gold, silver, precious stones, chinaware, wood, bland food, expensive food and other products.

I am surprised Bill O'Reilly didn't have a heart attack over this one

I hope you stoners drive this piece of shit on American roads, first accident you have with a Ford F-150 they will need to seperate the "plastic" from your "brain matter" LOL

it is an interesting car concept - make an electric car lighter and cheaper and simpler.

if we want to break our addiction to muslim oil, something like this, a lighter car that is adapted to the coming electricity economy, is one of the likely routes.

yes, this is the type of rhetoric that the multinat oil companies will use to keep us hooked on muslim oil.

thanks for the example.

the use of stoners as an attack term is a classic touch, altho the concept car has nothing to do with smoking, it's all about local materials, lightness, and toughness.

pretty cool if building fiber can be grown at the rate hemp can be grown, no end to the uses of hemp really

I am reminded of a thread on this very forum in which poster bandied about the term "shit American engineering" relative to automobiles.

Well, Canucks, you ain't done NOTHIN' NEW; Henry Ford built a car form hemp and soy products in................................................ ................

NINETEEN-FORTY-ONE....(1941 for the reading disabled among you!)

http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/consp.../fordhemp.html



From the citation:

"excerpt from:
Grown to drive ~ Metal, plastic, glass... and plants?

What kind of cars are they building?
by Curt Guyette

What some might call the car of the future has already made its big debut. The unveiling came in Dearborn — more than 50 years ago. David Morris, executive director of the Minneapolis-based Institute for Local Self-Reliance, described the event in a recent issue of his organization’s newsletter:

"On August 14, 1941, at the 15th Annual Dearborn Michigan Homecoming Day celebration, Henry Ford unveiled his biological car. Seventy percent of the body of the cream-colored automobile consisted of a mat of long and short fibers from field straw, cotton linters, hemp, flax, ramie and slash pine. The other 30 percent consisted of a filler of soymeal and a liquid bioresin.

"The timing gears, horn buttons, gearshift knobs, door handles and accelerator pedals were derived from soybeans. The tires were made from goldenrods bred by Ford’s close friend Thomas Edison. The gas tank contained a blend: about 85 percent gasoline and about 15 percent corn-derived ethanol."

To prove the vehicle’s superiority, Ford demonstrated the strength of the car body by smashing an ax against the trunk, only to have it bounce off. For some it remains a landmark event.

"That’s one of my favorite pictures," says Richard Wool, who is at the vanguard of an emerging industry that’s rediscovering what Ford thought to be a better way of making cars. Following in Ford’s track, Wool is developing adhesive bioresins from soy oil at the University of Delaware.

"To Henry Ford," wrote Morris, "the vegetable car was the perfect vehicle for driving the American farmer out of a 20-year economic depression. But after World War II, the maturation of the petrochemical industry and the export-driven revival of American agriculture seemed to relegate the idea of a biological car to the dustbins of history. Fifty years later, at the twilight of the 20th century, Ford’s dreams are again attracting attention. Working independently, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs are finding more and more ways to incorporate vegetable-derived products into your standard car."

"To prove the vehicle’s superiority, Ford demonstrated the strength of the car body by smashing an ax against the trunk, only to have it bounce off. For some it remains a landmark event.

"That’s one of my favorite pictures," says Richard Wool, who is at the vanguard of an emerging industry that’s rediscovering what Ford thought to be a better way of making cars. "



Rejected by the public because it did not understand plastics and their infinite uses.

Sally.

would have been cool if they kept at it

It's early still. I'm sure it's on his radar. He won't miss a chance to bash this one.

Hemp for victory!!!!!

Because hemp competed with paper and cotton. William Hearst decided that it was too ruthless of a competitor to his paper company so he used his newspapers to launch a campaign against hemp. However he realized nobody would care about hemp, so he fixated on the by-product. Hence the term “Yellow Journalism” which was coined from this very event.

The hemp plant is the most versatile crop in the entire plant kingdom. Our country was founded on hemp. George Washington was the largest hemp farmer in he world during the late 1700’s. Thomas Jefferson called on farmers to “plant hemp seed, not tobacco”. In fact, hemp was legal tender for almost 200 years in the United States. That’s right, you could even pay your taxes with hemp! In the late 1800’s hemp production slipped due to a lack of processing technology; paper production began using cheaper trees and cotton.

From 1901 to 1937, the U.S. Department of Agriculture repeatedly predicted that once machinery capable of harvesting, stripping, and separating hemp fiber was engineered, hemp production would again be America’s number one cash crop.

Then, in a February 1938 article entitled New Billion Dollar Crop, Popular Mechanics magazine reported on the new hemp harvesting technology being developed by International Harvester. But some people had plans to make this plant illegal for farmers to cultivate.

Three men, Henry J. Anslinger, Lammont DuPont, and William Randolph Hearst, made growing hemp illegal. Anslinger was the head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. DuPont and Hearst were the owners of the largest chemical company and newspaper, respectively.

Why would these men want hemp made illegal?

Trees had become the number one paper source during this time. Hearst, in addition to owning a nationwide chain of newspapers, also owned every bit of timber used to make them. The new threat of cheap hemp meant that trees would no longer be the cheapest source of paper. DuPont had patented the process for producing synthetic nylon from oil and coal as well as a new improved sulfate process to make paper from wood pulp. If DuPont would have had to compete against environmentally-friendly hemp products, his business would have suffered.

How did they make hemp illegal?

Hearst began printing outlandish stories with headlines such as “Marijuana goads user to blood lust” and “Hotel clerk identifies Marijuana smoker as gunman”. He also took advantage of the country’s prejudice against blacks and immigrants by printing that marijuana-crazed negroes were raping white women and by painting pictures of lazy, pot-smoking Mexicans. DuPont’s banker Andrew Mellon happened to be Secretary of the Treasury under Herbert Hoover. Mellon also had a nephew-in-law, Henry Anslinger, who had the Marijuana Tax Law of 1937 passed. When asked what this meant for industrial hemp farmers, Anslinger flatly declared “They can continue to raise hemp just as they have always done it. It makes very fine cordage and this legislation exempts the mature stalk when it is grown for hemp purposes.” However, due to the overall similarity in appearance between hemp and marijuana, the entire Cannabis family was made illegal. Hemp made a brief resurgence during World War II after Japan cut of supplies for raw fibers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture released the short film Hemp For Victory encouraging all farmers to grow hemp for the war effort. However, it went back to its illegal standing after the war.

Nice read, I remember now it was DuPont, not Dow chemical, so instead of hemp shirts, we have polester, great trade (not)

That should read "HARRY" Anslinger.

http://www.hereticalideas.com/2009/0...-drug-warrior/

Actually Anslinger initially saw no point in pursuing the laws against MJ but was ordered to by Congress.

Sally

Guilty by association....the fact that the most versatile fiber, not to mention the most renewable crop known to man, with little impact in the dirt it grows, is still black balled by big corps, DuPont, poster child of the most disgraceful environmental practice ever,headquartered in Virginia? Tobacco Capitol and home of our great leader, makes perfect association, the most destructive plant ever grown in dirt and profited by the most destructive power ever known by man,.. himself drunk on greed and status, ......the perfect crime. Hemp had a gun planted on the crime scene a long time ago, and the wheels of justice are SLOW to reason on reason. The case will never be heard by the people.


Once and a while we get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right;)

Cannabis could help save this world.

LOL one <////////> at a time