Napoleon hemp wars

Hi guys,

i am currently reading a book (the emporer wears no clothes).
It says in it that the entire reason Napoleon invaded Russia was to stop them from exporting hemp to England, as the british navy depended on huge amounts of hemp to build its ships. Napoleon apparantly figured if he could cut off the british hemp supplies from Russia he could defeat the British navy making way for an invasion. Apparantly Russia at first agreed to stop supply of hemp to the UK following threats of invasion from Napoleon but not before long the British sent boats from our overseas terorties like India, to Russia, on our behalf with supplies of gold and other valuables to trade for the hemp. The book says Napoleon found out about these secret hemp deals with England and Russia and was furious and invaded Russia. It also says that this "historical truth" has since been widely covered up or deliberatly "forgotten" about by world goverments that support the illegalisation of hemp.

Does anybody know how much truth there actually is in this?? What are your thoughts about it??
Nice one

 

Didn't know about the Napoleonic bit, I know that the Brits were blockading Yankee ports to stop them building ships.

Someone mentioned on an earlier thread that it would be an ideal fuel crop, it grows in desert conditions & doesn't need watering.

 

cool thanks guys.

i watched a programme a while ago that showed how the wireless cables that ran under the ocean at the start of the last century were insulated in thick wrapps of hemp. There is a diagram off a ship called the "USS constitution" in the book and it says over 60 tonnes of hemp were required all in all to build the vessel. Although the main part of the boat is oak wood.

On the back page Zig a number of different companies have put up a reward of 100,000 dollars for anyone who can prove the following statement wrong.

"If all fossil fuels and their derivatives, as well as trees for paper and construction were banned in order to save the planet, reverse the Greenhouse Effect and stop deforestation; then there is only one known annually renewable natural resource that is capable of providing the overall majority of the world's paper and textiles; meet all of the world's transportation, industrial and home energy needs, while simultaneously reducing pollution, rebuilding the soil, and cleaning the atmosphere all at the same time... and that substance is -- the same one that did it all before -- Cannabis Hemp... Marijuana!"

Btw, im not trying to start an online pro hemp rally or anything lol...i just wanted to cross examine the author since he is clearly very pro cannabis.

 

I think the author is interested in the sister plant as well though

I know there is a place down south where the goverment grow cannabis sativa with the maximum THC content possible (under licence) Then they turn the THC into a spray and bottle it, stick on a huge ammount of tax and call it "Sativex" and sell it to pharmacies in the uk lol If you look at the drugs side effects i think they are very very minor in comparison to other medications use to treat the same illness.

 

quote "The unfertilized female species of cannabis sativa L contains the highest amount of THC"

this is wrong. I think what it is ment to say is the un-pollinated female species

 

There used to be loads of hemp on the streets of Bridport in the old rope making days, but don't know what it's like of a weekend these days.

 

You can grow it, the hemp kind.
A mate of mine gave me some seed from the fishing tackle shop, its a nice plant.

 

I can only imagine Scrungee

 

I thought thats what it may mean Marley English is a starnge language lol
Pete i may try to grow some hemp myself if it is certainly legal??

 

Last saw a plant 3 years ago outside the fishing tackle shop in West Bay.

 

The stuff about Rothschilds makes good reading