HEMP FOR VICTORY: THE TRILLION DOLLAR CROP is the fifth in the HEMP FOR VICTORY series of books by the USA Hemp Museum. THE TRILLION DOLLAR CROP focuses on how to use hemp and common sense finance to help heal our economic crisis. “When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.” -Daniel Webster, lawyer and politician “Why not legalize weed and make some money?” - Mos Def on Bill Maher’s Real Time We are entering the Emerald Age of Hemp. What this new age will be like is being expressed in our series Hemp for Victory? What is this vi- sion worth? What is a global warming solution worth? What is a wonder herb worth? What is hemp paper worth? What are hemp building materi- als worth? What is clean air worth? What is a healthy economy worth?

This document is a synthesis of two ideas. The first is our decades of hemp experience backed by papers, online articles, excerpts from books and exhibits from the hemp museum, making the case for the return to the hemp plant as a part of the solution to the economic problems left over from Industrial Age greed. These problems include global warming, dependency on foreign fossil fuels for energy, sustainable resource development, a stable economy and more. You can’t eat machines.

We here at the USA Hemp Museum know hemp and you can eat hemp. And we can live, survive and thrive with hemp.

The second idea is to explore how a new system of finance and bank- ing can help pave the way and pay for the transition to hemp as a home- grown resource. Added to this are other exhibits found at the USA Hemp Museum I’ve collected over the past 40 years. Sometimes a picture is worth more than it appears. For exam- ple, the picture of homemade hemp pressboard (right) represents the three billion dollar pressboard industry of Oregon now using precious trees we need for survival. Let’s open the doors to the pros- perous age of hemp, nature’s solution.

Hemp Economics A hemped economy is a healthy economy.

Imagine an emerald plant that grows in 90-150 days, can be used to make over 50,000 prod- ucts such as all our paper, can eliminate dependence on foreign energy sources, actually reverse global warming and can be implemented, as Willie Nelson says, with NO WAR REQUIRED.

Such is the amazing hemp plant that can help turn our current economic mess into an eco- nomic cornucopia of job, business, and other taxable income opportuni- ties.

Since one purpose of this book series is to educate the public about how hemp can help in the immediate financial crisis, we have named the series after the successful World War II Hemp for Victory campaign. During the WWII crisis, the lack of fiber for our military, for rope, can- vas, boot thread, fire hose, tents, etc., was so critical that hemp farm- ers and their sons were exempt from military duty. In two years, 350,000 acres of hemp was harvested for the war effort. We can do this now for our survival as a planet.

Our government, despite the worldwide resurgence of hemp, still calls all varieties of hemp by the mongrel name marijuana, which we still use to denote the medical/recreational industry that has remained as a black-market staple for the past 70 plus years. We made a good case in our first book of the series HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION that the outlawing and prohibition of hemp could be seen as a major cause of the problem of global warming, insuring that we would be hooked up to the fossil fuel pipeline for those 72 years. The federal government still evades the economic potential of hemp, although we have faith that the Obama administration will see the light and change policy from prohibition to freedom so we can get on with healing the planet. The government is worried about such non- sense as “uncertainty… and the potential for oversupply” as seen be- low.

Hemp For Victory - Volume V - The Trillion Dollar Crop JEMM • VOL 4 NO 7 - JUL 2009 • PAGE 52 Industrial Hemp In The United States: Status And Market Potential Abstract Industrial hemp has been the focus of official interest in several States. However, hemp and marijuana are different varieties of Cannabis sativa, which is classified as a controlled substance in the United States.

With Canada now allowing hemp production, questions have been raised about the demand for hemp products. U.S. markets for hemp fiber (specialty textiles, paper, and composites) and seed (in food or crushed for oil) are, and will likely remain, small, thin markets. Uncertainty about long run demand for hemp products and the potential for oversupply dis- counts the prospects for hemp as an economically viable alternative crop for American farmers.

As long as the planet earth is in peril there can be no oversupply of biomass crops such as hemp. In plain terms hemp is a carbon source that far surpasses fossil fuels (crude oil, coal, and natural gas) by being renewable and sustainable and capable of reversing global warming. “You dial me on Google and 10,000 sites will say I'm an exaggerating liar because I've long believed—for over 30 years—that when you see the planetary life support system getting messed up, you don't wait for full 99% certainty. You slow it down. We buy fire insurance when there's less than a 1% chance our house is going to burn down. We have a military, and although I may not like everything we do with it, I don't know anybody who says you should get rid of it because you have security precautions against only very low probability—but potentially dangerous—threats. Well, the climate change threat is not 1%. It's better than 50% for really significant trouble, and maybe 10% for absolutely catastrophic trouble. What kind of crazy person would take that chance when you can fix it relatively easily? By which I mean below the growth rate of the GDP.”

- Stephen Schneider, Climate Scientist, APR/ MAY, 2006. SEED MAG.

Hemp has an incredible history which can be found on our USA Hemp Museum website’s History Room. A brief overview of that history shows hemp as the first textile crop planted by humans. Remnants of hemp fabric date back 8-9 thousand years.

Hemp medicines are 5,000 years old, as is the Chinese symbol for hemp. The first true paper from pulp was of hemp two thousand years ago and the first printing was done 88 USA Hemp Museum — www.hempmuseum. org on hemp paper. The hemp ropes and sails of ships of commerce and world exploration go back 6,000 years. These ships of wood and hemp brought us to America, provided the raw materials that started the abun- dance in the new world.

That abundance included hemp paper on which to write our laws and hemp fiber to make our flags over hundreds of years, right here in the good old U.S.A. And theU. S. Government calls it marijuana.

Financing The Hemp Revolution

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Little did we know a couple of years ago that the cover of our first book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION would be so prophetic? “Leave the depression behind, buy a hemp farm,” read the cover picture painted during the great depression. Now another economic catastrophe is upon us. Our economic sys- tem has failed us. Our banking systems, indeed the banking systems of the world, are bankrupt. Now is the time for action if we wish to succeed in getting out of this economic trouble-this new depression.

We have been from the start of the United States, fighting off at- tempts by those who want us controlled by a central banking system that began hundreds of years ago in Europe.We are not economists here at the USA Hemp Museum, but that might be a blessing in that we do not speak fluent financial language.We hope to rely on other researchers and people’s ideas to work out the method of financing the transition from fossil fuels to hemp. For history and a working knowledge of the banking system, we recommend “THE WEB OF DEBT: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System And How We Can Break Free,” by Ellen Hodgson Brown, J.D., 2008 (529 pages).

“The real truth is…that a financial element in the large centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.”- President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933.

(THE WEB OF DEBT) Because we live and work in California, we hope to use our state to create a model for both growing and financing the hemp revolution in the U.S.A. We have a lot of catching up to do with other countries on the growing part, but we know what needs to be done and that it needs to be done as soon as possible.

Hemp revolution in the U.S.A. We have a lot of catching up to do with other countries on the growing part, but we know what needs to be done and that it needs to be done as soon as possible.We here acknowledge that North Dakota has also blazed a trail for these “state’s rights” questions, both by suing the Federal government for hemp growing and having a state bank to help finance their hemp revolution.

Being the eighth largest economy in the world, California is more than a model for the rest of the country. When things happen in California, the world is affected.We the people brought back medical marijuana from 60 years of prohibition in 1996.

The great seal of the State of California has seven examples of hemp - four sailing ships (80 tons each), prospector’s clothes, donkey’s rope and pack, the Roman toga.In California, the people hold all the power.And because I live in California and have been active in the legal aspects of our rights and Constitution, I believe we can do what needs to be done.

It’s in the California Constitution. And we know how to exercise that Constitutional power – by initiative. And here we hope to offer examples of initiatives on each part of this book: legalizing and growing hemp; start a state bank to get us out of debt and pay for the hemp revolution. Cali- fornia needs a state bank. How this all comes about is not as important as that it does come about and fast. It is no coincidence that hemp is green and so is our money. It is our hope that the subject of hemp economics flourishes. We had to borrow this picture of a hemp field because the American farmer is prohibited from growing hemp, as our government calls it all marijuana.

“A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded…Prohibition goes beyond the bound of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation, and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.” - Abraham Lincoln.