Since the problem is too many toxins in the soil, water and air, the solution is to use effective means to clean it up.
Phytoremediation is the science of using plants to help
clean our environment. Richard M. Davis, USAHempMuseum frequently said that hemp is a
biomass champion at pulling toxins from our environment. For example, hemp
breathes excess CO2, a major greenhouse gas as it grows.
“Hemp improves the physical condition of the soil, and when retted on the same ground where it grows, it returns most of the fertilizing elements” Hemp, Lifeline To The Future by Chris Conrad pg. 167
“Hemp breathes in the excess global warming CO2 gas from the air as it grows” said Richard M. Davis, USA Hemp Museum
Focusing on agriculture is the best way to begin the process of using hemp to help us deal with climate change.Climate change is a global problem, not fixable by any one
nation, though it will take only one nation to begin. When the cause of climate
change is too many toxins in the environment, out of balance, the solution is
to remove the excess toxins and restore balance. This is simple science.
In the name of greed, we have made parts of nature illegal
while we wonder why we have environmental problems.
Hemp was planted around Chernobyl's nuclear disaster site to pull
radioactive elements from the ground. Jack Herer said that hemp works like a
mop absorbing nuclear toxins from the soil. Toxic metals like lead, which
causes violent behavior and other health problems, are also absorbed by hemp
and other phytoremediation plants like tobacco, mushrooms, thistle, sunflowers,
etc. Science from many governments
and educational
institutions back up the need for us to implement an international
phytoremediation program immediately to help solve climate change at the level
of cause.
An immediate end to hemp prohibition will allow us
to use this biomass champion in a hemp phytoremediation program. "Phytoremediation can be defined as the decontamination of soil, sediment
or water using plant growth. Industrial hemp, Cannabis sativa L.,
is renowned for its ability to grow rapidly. In one growing season, fiber hemp
can yield 250 to 400 plants per square meter, with each plant reaching up to 5
meters in height. As a result, hemp has been identified as a plant with the
potential to serve as a phytoremediator." The same way hemp was used
to clean up the toxins around Chernobyl, we should
be using hemp to clean up the toxins from the Gulf of
Mexico "oil spill" (more like a volcano) and other
environmental crisis situations.
Imagine a blend of musicians playing healing music during
their same day parts for 24 hours. If you are a musician please play during the time of the Kyoto Hemp Forum to send Earth some extra Healing Vibes.
We have added this music room to the on line section to the
Kyoto Hemp Forum. Please post your favorites. If you are performing during the
event weekend, share your musical vibration in an on line video and post the
link here.
Time4Hemp has a vast library of over a quarter century of hemp
musicians, music and in depth interviews that will also be included in this
section.
ALL FORMS OF HEMP/CANNABIS MUSIC ARE WELCOME! Please post your thoughts, videos and photos in the comments sections. As we build and implement the Action Plan for implementing the hemp solution and other smart actions, we're sharing ideas. Musical vibrations are healing. Thanks.
From Chris Conrad’s book HEMP:
Lifeline To The Future
“Medical cannabis has been
ubiquitous in human history, and its use was advised in virtually all ancient
and medieval medicinal texts.” HLLTTF pg 10
Sir John Russell Reynolds, during his 30 years of
experience as Queen Victoria's
personal physician ... wrote in 1890 of marijuana, "When pure and
administered carefully, it is one of the most valuable medicines we
possess." page 14 "The complete protein in hempseed gives the
body the combination of essential amino acids and essential fatty acids needed
to maintain health. It provides the components necessary to make human
serum albumin and serum globulins, including the immune enhancing gamma globulin
antibodies. No epidemiological data indicate a rise in infections from
smoking cannabis, as had once been claimed." page 145
"Cannabis smoke is an expectorant that cleans
out air passages. Heavy concentrations of smoke cause coughing that helps
break up and expel phlegm. The herb is an excellent dilator of the
airways called the bronchi, opening them up to allow more oxygen into the
blood, and of the bronchioles, small air tubes of the lungs.' page 150
In Richard M. Davis’s
book HEMP FOR VICTORY: THE WONDER HERB is an article written by the dynamic cannabis
champion Dr. Lester Grinspoon.
“The study, from the University
of California at San Francisco, found smoked marijuana to be
effective at relieving the extreme pain of a debilitating condition known as
peripheral neuropathy. It was a study of HIV patients, but a similar type of
pain caused by damage to nerves afflicts people with many other illnesses
including diabetes and multiple sclerosis.
Neuropathic pain is notoriously resistant to treatment with
conventional pain drugs. Even powerful and addictive narcotics like morphine
and OxyContin often provide little relief. This study leaves no doubt that
marijuana can safely ease this type of pain.
As all marijuana research in the United States must be, the new
study was conducted with government-supplied marijuana of notoriously poor
quality. So it probably underestimated the potential benefit.
This is all good news, but it should not be news at all.
In the 40-odd years I have been studying the medicinal uses
of marijuana, I have learned that the recorded history of this medicine goes
back to ancient times and that in the 19th century it became a well established
Western medicine whose versatility and safety were unquestioned.
From 1840 to 1900, American and European medical journals
published over 100 papers on the therapeutic uses of marijuana, also known as
cannabis.
Of course, our knowledge has advanced greatly over the
years. (Yes, this Dr. Lester Grinspoon with Cannabis Champion Ben Dronkers)
Scientists have identified over 60 unique constituents in
marijuana, called cannabinoids, and we have learned much about how they work.
We have also learned that our own bodies produce similar
chemicals, called endocannabinoids.
The mountain of accumulated anecdotal evidence that pointed
the way to the present and other clinical studies also strongly suggests there
are a number of other devastating disorders and symptoms for which marijuana
has been used for centuries; they deserve the same kind of careful,
methodologically sound research.
While few such studies have so far been completed, all have
lent weight to what medicine already knew but had largely forgotten or ignored:
Marijuana is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite
loss, certain types of pain, and other debilitating symptoms.
And it is extraordinarily safe -- safer than most medicines
prescribed every day. If marijuana were a new discovery rather than a
well-known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be
hailed as a wonder drug.”
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Hemp is and has been part of our eco-system since the
beginning, for Christians it goes back to Genesis 1:11. In India’s Hindu religion there is Shiva.
Rastafarians
praise the Lord with ganja. We must look at the
role prayer and meditation, pure thought, can have on solving our problems
too. There are volumes on hemp and
prayer for us to consider too.
“Stop being quiet about all this. Speak up. Rise a ruckus.
Raise the issues. You might even raise some collective consciousness.
On just one issue, for instance. Why not grow hemp and use
it to make paper? Do you have any idea how many trees it takes just to supply
your world with daily newspapers? To say nothing of paper cups, carry-out
cartons, and paper towels?
Hemp can be grown inexpensively and harvested easily and
used not only for making paper, but the strongest rope, and the longest-lasting
clothing, and even some of the most effective medicines our planet can
provide. In fact, cannabis can be
planted so inexpensively, and harvested so easily, and has so many wonderful
uses, that there is a huge lobby working against it.”
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In this section many innovative companies and organization can be listed – This should not be limited to a mere USA perspective and a call is issued for our many organizations and activists past who have impacted on this process.
Japan Hemp Association, Time 4 Hemp, Marijuana Policy Project, Vote Hemp, Drug Policy Alliance...
ElectroHemp BioRad CleanUp is a
green remediation implementation strategy and process to clean up Hazmat
Locations and Superfund Sites in the St Louis Region and Beyond. For those who
don’t know what’s going on at the Westlake Landfill, toxic nuclear waste from
the Manhattan Project, yes the one that was used to create the first nuclear
bomb, got stored in a toxic waste dump. Cancer
and other illness rates are rising in the area.
“MOhemp
Energy-has designed Hemp Farming Equipment- that will allow Hemp Farmers a one
pass hemp harvesting machine that separates the seeds, fibers, and hurds in the
field without having to wait weeks for the stalks to cure and rett. This
process also leaves the Fibers LONG and they never touch the ground!”
And innovators who have passed on
Sister Somayah Kambui, Richard M. Davis, Captain Ed Adair,
Jim Rosenfield, Dr. Emoto, Brownie Mary,
Jack Herer, Peter McWilliams, Gatewood Galbraith...
Please post your videos and comments below of any and all
hemp innovations that are helping you improve the quality of your life and the
lives of those around you.
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Chris Conrad reported that in “8,000 BC- Civilization, agriculture
& hemp textile industries begin in Europe and Asia, simultaneously” –
HLLTTF
3727 BC- Cannabis called a “superior” herb in the world’s
first medical text, or pharmacopeia, Shen Nung’s Pen Ts’ao, in China.” HLLTTF
– Appendix 23 Of course the greatest historical treasure in this writer’s
opinion is the Samurai celebration called Hemp and Fire. It is 1,200 years old
and still celebrated. Hemp Industries Association and Vote Hemp celebrate
Hemp History week annually. Here's more on hemp history. We're writing the next chapter now.
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We are maintaining an international food production and
distribution system that results in millions of hungry people and millions more undernourished. The simple shift to healthy, delicious hemp
foods can solve the world hunger problem in less than a year. Here’s how.
Grow, promote and sell hemp foods. Due to its short growing
cycle, we can make enough to feed everybody while empowering countless
souls.
Los Angeles
hemp activist, Sister Somayah Kambui, was legendary for her hemp tacos. She would serve them to many guest who loved
the meal, concluding with her signature smile and the phrase, ‘not a bit of
meat in it.’
Solving the United Nations declared world food crisis with
hemp foods is a minor shift that can yield miraculous results. Wind pollinated
hemp is so versatile it can be made into flour, oil, seeds, salads, tinctures,
milk, tea, etc. Hemp can also be used as
a meat substitute (replace soy flour with hemp in the recipe); a hemp textured
vegetable protein (TVP).
Support your favorite hemp food companies…if for no reasons
other than flavor and the nutritional value found in this precious herb.
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“Most of the nutrients used by hemp are stored in the
foliage and returned to the soil as mulch at the close of the season” HLLTTF pg
60 – Let’s get this process in gear, mass hemp growing can help.
Hemp as a tool to address cleaning up our environment and many
health conditions we are facing.
In great part because of our perceived climate change
crisis, the days of “vegetable criminalization” HLLTTF pg 287 are being forced
to close, replaced by common sense.
Hemp Pulls Lead From
the Soil
CNN’s #UnitedShades did a piece on the violence in Camden, NJ. Camden has had
the same lead problem for the last 20 years going on in Flint
and many other places.
There is a theory ‘Nero fiddled while Rome burned’ may be connected to the
aqueduct's lead pipes, plumber’s colic. Here's the Harvard paper on the subject
of lead causing violent
behavior. Here's a Mother Jones piece . And a Forbes
follow up.
"Overall, phytoremediation has great potential for
cleaning up toxic metals, pesticides, solvents, gasoline, and explosives. The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that more than 30,000
sites in the United States
alone require hazardous waste treatment. Restoring these areas and their soil,
as well as disposing of the wastes, are costly projects, but the costs are
expected to be reduced drastically if plants provide the phytoremediation
results everyone is hoping for."
Nero must stop fiddling. Phytoremediation pulls lead and
other toxins from the environment.
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Our use of toxic energy is hurting our environment, even
killing many of us. Bio fuels must be part of our clean, safe energy strategy
to address man’s negative impact on nature and transform it into an empowerment
too. We have literally volumes of
confirmed evidence that toxic energy is one of the primary roots of our current
climate change crisis. Einstein warned about the decision to turn away from
biofuels to nuclear. “nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water”. Henry Ford built and designed his car to run
on biofuels.
A simple shift from energy that is killing us to clean, low
cost or free energy sources
makes is the smart thing to do.
It is time to stop pulling material from the earth with
techniques like oil drilling, fracking, coal and nuclear energy and use what
the Earth gives us naturally like biofuels, magnetic, hydro, wind and solar.
Energy from farming is
clean. No need to crack Mother Earth
open to get it, Since much of our environmental pollution is the result of
approved government policies, reversing this crisis is a matter of math.
The great hemp activist Willie Nelson in the last decade
started his B20 BioWillie biodiesel
making him a pioneer in the field of biofuel, lifting the banner raised by
Henry Ford who worked with George Washington Carver to develop biofuels for
Ford’s diesel cars.
An excellent article on the subject is by Lynn Osburn “Energy Farming in
America” no nationalistic implications in the recommendation. “Farmers
should be encouraged to grow energy crops capable of producing 10 tons per acre
in 90-120 days. The crop has to be naturally high in cellulose.”
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Shifting to clean biofuels is not nuclear science, just
common sense. Let’s do it!
Hemp in
architecture is returning. The design opportunities it offers are enormous,
taking us beyond the boxes of agricultural and industrial age structures. Imagine,
energy efficient buildings built to withstand our modern storms, floods, reduce
indoor radiation and fire retardant.
Hempcrete, which is a blend of hemp and lime is a carbon
negative construction material. Hemp adobe, woods, papers, inks and textiles
bring an easily renewable element to design. Restoring hemp to architecture is
vital. Large populations, especially coastal areas, are or will be forced to
move inland as the sea levels rise. Called
‘climate change refugees’ they need quick access to shelter. Structures can be designed to be expanded,
repurposed as needed with the dynamic of 3D printing. Structures include our
infrastructure too.
Many large populations must reduce nuclear radiation like New York City which is down river from the Indian Point
nuclear plant or Westlake Landfill housing Manhattan Project nuclear waste, or
16,000 cracks in a Belgium
nuclear plant, etc. Simple things like turning off and 3d printing nuclear
sarcophagus can do a lot to lower our radiation levels. This playlist below has more on hemp building materials that are being used in modern construction.
Hemp
building materials are already expanding the definition of
architecture. Combined with 3D printing
we can easily build structures that have rounded / dome corners that the wind
goes around, not lifts up or blows away in the event of a hurricane or tornado.
We can add a layer of strong waterproofing material to prevent flood
damage. NASA has research into magnetic nuclear radiation shielding that may be
incorporated into modern architecture reducing indoor radiation. Please post your thoughts, videos and photos in the comments sections. As we build and implement the Action Plan for implementing the hemp solution and other smart actions, we're sharing ideas. Thanks.
This playlist consists of videos I've found on the Westlake Landfill / Coldwater Creak crisis consisting of Manhattan Project nuclear waste that is in danger of an underground chemical fire reaching it. It has Michael Jackson as an opener as you browse through the list to find a piece, pieces you find of interest.
Scotts Contracting has an innovative hemp based solution to nuclear waste. Click here for a preview of an idea that should be, must be implemented now on all nuclear waste sites. Here's a link to a more detailed presentation of MOhemp's technology. Make sure you check out Slide 7. Please post your thoughts, videos and photos in the comments sections. As we build and implement the Action Plan for implementing the hemp solution and other smart actions, we're sharing ideas. Thanks.
The Fire This Time Is 100 Miles North of Las Vegas, NV
I live in Lake Havasu City, AZ, at least for now. I am questioning the environmental impact of the nuclear radiation from the October, 2015 explosion at a U S Ecology nuclear waste dump as a result of a fire, so we've been told.
Since I live about 400 miles from the explosion, and have a recent history of brain seizures, I'm wondering if we should get out now and avoid the holiday rush?
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada state officials said Tuesday they don’t know what sparked an apparent explosion and fire at a closed commercial radioactive waste dump in a predominantly rural county, but they vowed that the state will handle the investigation and cleanup.
“We have the jurisdiction. We have the assets, and that’s the course of action,” James Wright, state Department of Public Safety chief, said after reporters asked Nevada emergency, health and environmental protection officials whether state agencies should investigate each other."
"“If we have to fix it, we’ll fix it,” Wright vowed.
The 80-acre industrial dump in Nye County about 115 miles northwest of Las Vegas is on state land and is under state regulatory oversight.
State emergency management chief Caleb Cage and Fire Marshal Peter Mulvihill said the fire burned unabated after starting Sunday during intense thunderstorms and flash flooding in the area."
Here's the short strokes of what I think we should be doing to fix this mess now. Modify from a piece I wrote back in 2013 called HOW TO FIX FUKUSHIMA. Same principles apply. Phytoremediate in hemp, sunflowers, mushrooms and thistle; cannabis for the cancers and brain seizures; entomb existing nuclear plants and waste using 3D printing's contour crafting technique in long lasting radiation shielding materials like hemp, lead, tungsten; and get on a nutrition program to fortify the body like Dr. Joel Wallach's Youngevity vitamins.
1.6 million addicts in Afghanistan are the result of our war on drugs.
Ibogaine For Afghanistan Benefit Tuesday, July 28th, 2015 6:30-9:30 PM @The Henley Vaporium 23 Cleveland Pl, NYC, NY, USA Suggested Donation: $20 Come on down to the party, a half block south of the Spring St. stop on the east side of the park.
(Cleveland Pl is the northern most block of Center St.)
Save women and children from the scourge of heroin.
Problem: Drug
addiction in Afghanistan
Solution: Establish an
Ibogaine Clinic in Afghanistan
WHAT IS IBOGAINE?
Ibogaine is a
naturally occurring alkaloid obtained from the root bark of the shrub Tabernanthe
iboga. It grows in Gabon and other areas in West Africa. Ibogaine root bark has been used for many
centuries during the ritualistic ceremonies of the Bwiti religion.
But ibogaine is
best-known for interrupting the symptoms of drug withdrawal and reducing drug craving
for extended periods of time -- allowing an heroin addict to detoxify with minimal symptoms.
Ibogaine also appears to reset the
brain's neurotransmitter function to a pre-addictive state.
RITUAL
WHAT IS IBOGAINE FOR AFGHANISTAN?
Ibogaine For
Afghanistan is a project created for the specific purpose of:
• Implementing and
legalizing Ibogaine in Afghanistan.
• Including it in the
Afghan ‘prescribed medicines list.
• Creating a circle of
treatment for drug users in Afghanistan and war
veterans in the United States.
The project began back
in 2010. A number of difficult obstacles forced it to to be temporarily
discontinued. In early 2014, it was reactivated after the difficulties were worked
out and eliminated.
WHY AFGHANISTAN?
Afghanistan’s severe drug problem makes it the ideal
location for the program. The potency of the heroin produced in the region has
rendered methadone treatments ineffective, disillusioning government officials.
Its poor performance never
really gained the support of government officials. As the heroin crisis
increases, a new and more effective treatment method is desperately needed to
help turn the tide. The arrival of Ibogaine as the quickest, safest and most
cost-effective medication is expediting the government approval of a license
for the clinic.
Targeted authorities:
• Ministry of Health.
• Ministry of Counter
Narcotics.
• Ministry of Justice.
• Ministry of
Religious Affairs.
• Ministry of
Information and Culture.
• Ministry of labor
and social affairs, civil society and local influential faces.
Strategy:
The project consists
of three stages: Stage 1. included Murtaza Majeed traveling to Kabul,
Afghanistan to utilize his relationship with
government and the country’s Drug Demand Reduction committee of the nation’s
two most populated areas besides Kabul. (Herat and Mazar-i-Sharif)
Stage 2. is now
focused on the demonstration of ibogaine for heroin detox in six to ten addicts
and the establishment of a clinic. This stage includes foreign experts training
a medical staff, establishment of a clinic in Kabul.
Stage 3. The expansion
of ibogaine therapy across the country as an alternative for detoxification in
all U.N.-affiliated treatment centers.
Timeline: Due to
complications resulting from the disputed election, the project has been
postponed to start on September 1, 2014. Stage 1, leading to approval to do the first
demonstration treatments required Murtaza to go to Kabul again in March to negotiate a memorandum of
understanding with the most advanced hospital addiction clinic in the
country. That was followed by the
appointment a harm reductionist, Salamat Azime, as new Minister for Counter-narcotics.
Salamat is a former student of Murtaza's closest associate, Dr. Zabi; and on
June 13 Zabi arrived in Kabul. The last key
player, Dr. Anwar Jeewa of S. Africa, is set to bring ibogaine, adjunct
medications and certain medical equipment up from Durban
just as soon as Ms. Azime produces a visa--a process complicated by the fact Afghanistan doesn't maintain an Embassy in Pretoria.
All of this is
contingent upon funding.
Ibogaine For
Afghanistan Executive Director, Murtaza Majeed has established a local NGO,
"Medawa", to work on drug treatment, policy making, advocacy on drug
policy and harm reduction services. Murtaza is working with people who use
drugs for their rights, access to treatment and health.
Since Murtaza Majeed
is a veteran of the National AIDS
Control Program in Afghanistan and was a
national training and resource center coordinator for Afghanistan National AIDS
Control Program, everyone in the country is familiar with his work. The first
methadone clinic funded by the Global Fund and Afghanistan
government was one of his achievements. Training and development of methadone treatment
to other health staffs in Afghanistan was part
of his responsibilities through the National Training and Resource Centre.
In 2010 he started to
advocate for Ibogaine in order to have a licensed and prescribed Ibogaine in Afghanistan and to open a clinic for drug treatment. He
actually went so far as to schedule Dr. Zabi for training at Minds Alive Clinic
in Durban in early 2011, but visa problems
interfered. Murtaza has a long experience working with community development, human
rights, drug users rights, HIV/AIDS, needle exchange program and organizational
development. He urgently needs your financial backing. We are so close to
effectuating the first 10 treatments!
