Dr. Ron Paul: "Hemp can't get you high unless the joint is the size of a telephone pole!"

Top Ten Facts About Hemp #1. For more than a thousand years before the time of Christ until 1883 AD, Cannabis/Hemp was our planet's largest agricultural crop and most important industry for thousands upon thousands of products and enterprises, producing the overall majority of the earth's fibre, fabric, lighting oil, paper, incense and medicines, as well as being a primary source of protein for humans and animals alike.

#2 One acre of hemp will produce as much paper as 2 to 4 acres of tress.

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#3 Hemp needs no pesticides or herbicides because it is unpalatable to insects & grows too quickly for any weed to compete.

#4 Trees take approximately 20 years to mature. Hemp takes 4 months.

#5 We can grow it every year without damaging the soil!

#6 Much of the world's paper was made from Hemp until about 1850. Since the 1900s, all newspapers and most books and magazines were printed on wood-pulp paper.

#7 Hemp offers a valuable and sustainable fuel of the future, "growing oil wells". (Hemp Run Car Pictured to the Right @ www.hempcar.org)

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#8 Hemp is more water absorbent than cotton and has 3 times the tensile strength.

#9 Hemp paper does not need chlorine bleach, which heavily pollutes rives near wood-pulp paper mills.

#10 "The earliest-known woven fabric was apparently of Hemp, which began to be worked in the eighth millennium (8,000-7,000 BC)" say Columbia History of the world 1981.

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