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THE 25 MOST IMPORTANT CORPORATE-SPONSORED FILMS OF ALL TIME

source: http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=features&Id=2361

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“Hemp for Victory” (1942). The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) created the 16-minute film “Hemp for Victory” to show farmers how to successfully cultivate cannibas plants for use in the manufacture of wartime cordage. The film offers an examination of everything you ever wanted to know about growing hemp. The film was only shown during 1942 – it literally disappeared after the war, when the federal ban on growing hemp took effect again. For years, the USDA insisted that no such movie ever existed. But in May 1989, a trio of tenacious advocates for legalizing marijuana – Jack Herer, Maria Farrow and Carl Packard – combed the Library of Congress' motion picture and filmstrips records in Washington and the USDA library at Bettsville, Maryland, to locate evidence the film existed. They later found a print and donated it to the Library of Congress.

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3 comments // THE 25 MOST IMPORTANT CORPORATE-SPONSORED FILMS OF ALL TIME

  • davzap
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      davzap  

    • THanks to the folks who persisted in the search for this film. Now we can use the governments own words against prohibition.

    • 2 years ago
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  

    • 'Hemp for Victory' is an important documentary! 'Reefer Madness' should not have been used to perpetuate a 'war' on American soil. It's an "Assault on Reason" and us.

      It's time to end the unjust war on cannabis and get back onto the road to victory. Cannabis hemp has so many uses, it's 'madness' not to use a plant which has been around for thousands of years.

      Cannabis hemp is Schedule I, due to politics, not reality. President Obama could change things with the stroke of a pen. He could reclassify cannabis hemp and let the discussion begin.

    • 2 years ago
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