Hemp Clothing: The Future Of Fashion

It's only a matter of time. As people become conscious that alternative energies are far healthier for the environment and humankind, they'll inevitably realize the best plant-sourced biomass is industrial hemp. Oddly enough, a lot of people aren't much aware of hemp even though it's been commercially grown for 12,000 years. Our founding fathers were plenty aware of it.

From the NAIHC (North American Industrial Hemp Council): Washington and Jefferson both grew hemp. Ben Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper, that is what the Declaration of Independence is written on. When US sources of 'Manila' hemp was cut off by the Japanese in WWII, the US Army and Department of Agriculture promoted the 'hemp products' campaign to develop more hemp in the US. Due to the importance for sails and rope for ships, hemp was a required crop in the American colonies. Funny, it was once a required crop!

From VenusProject.com: All schoolbooks were created from hemp or flax paper before the 1880s. It absolutely was LEGAL TO PAY TAXES WITH HEMP in America from 1631 before the early 1900s. REFUSING TO GROW HEMP in America during the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries WAS AGAINST THE LAW! You could be jailed in Virginia for refusing to develop hemp from 1763 to 1769. Wow.

Everyone knows Henry Ford, but many do not understand that Ford was an enormous advocate of industrial hemp. He built an entire car from the item to prove it, a vehicle that ran on, you guessed it, hemp fuel. To exhibit the durability of the car's body Ford was famously observed in photos and video wanting to dent your body by having an axe. An AXE! The car's body was far lighter than steel-bodied cars and yet ten times as strong. Take into account the impact on fuel conservation and saving lives this may have had.

Why didn't Ford continue along with his hemp car? Great question. The Marijuana Tax act of 1937 by the US Government effectively made it unaffordable to develop and doomed all production of industrial hemp although it have been a preference crop on most farmers before then. Speculation has it that pressure from big money like Dupont Chemical, Rockefeller's US Steel and the timber industry had much to lose and played into the mix. It's a shame that happened.

What's promising is others are finally stepping as much as the plate. No army can keep a good truth from rising eventually. An example, the nice people at Hempcar.org recently drove their hemp powered Mercedes wagon 13,000 miles across America to greatly help spread awareness. Incidentally, you can't get on top of industrial hemp products if that's concerning to anyone.