Water Bottle Inventor: Hemp Is the Answer

The public attitude about marijuana is changing - too slow to suit me - but changing none the less. The hypocrisy is becoming more & more evident. Our beloved FDA, tasked with protecting us, claims marijuana to have no medicinal value. Yet state after state is voting to legalize medical marijuana. The anti-pot hysteria, fueled by government advertising campaigns, was and is not only groundless but mushroomed into attacks to include industrial hemp.

What many of our ill-informed brethren fail to realize is that while marijuana is hemp - hemp is not marijuana. Industrial hemp, grown for it's fibers, contains so little THC as to be totally worthless as a drug. If you smoke hemp the only thing you get is a sore throat. Yet hemp has been included in the ban simply because it's the same genesis of plant.

Lifting the ban on industrial hemp could indeed aid in America's financial woes. Not a magic bullet - but a thing that could be done that would HELP, not hinder.

I was recently reading a 1961 National Geographic feature on Viet Nam. The war was just getting started. Accompanying the article was a photo of a bay full of fishing boats...very idyllic. Beneath the photo the caption noted that the government was encouraging South Vietnamese fishermen to give up their oars for motors and their hemp nets for nylon (by-product of petroleum).....

and this war was about what?

Hemp's potential for competing with petrochemical products I think is one reason why it first became illegal. Wasn't Wasn't Harry Aslinger in bed with DuPont? This and other means of profit, as well as controlling the masses, are the reasons why it remains illegal. Concern over the best interests of the people is not and was never a consideration, just a propagandistic tool.

Utilizing hemp could mean jobs, jobs, jobs in America. The corporations which have sent our industry to other countries, don't want jobs, jobs, jobs, in America, because they want more, more, more. They don't give a damn about America, or Americans. The only green they care about is money, money, money!

Hemp plastic! Hemp paper! Hemp cloth! Hemp fuel! Hemp soup!
America could not have won the Revolutionary War without Hemp.
Hemp was America's most important crop for hundreds of years.
Why are we so ignorant of our past and future?
Don't tell me. Big Bucks.

Awesome Idea! I am pretty sure most metal and plastic containers that currently exist leach small amounts of their composition into water at a molecular level. Which depending on the toxicity of what comprises the water bottles, could be an issue.