The Hemp Revolution
Released: October 20, 1995Runtime: 73 min
This documentary covers a whole lot of ground. It deals with every historical and contemporary aspect of hemp usage and cultivation (mainly in the U.S.), which turns out to be a lot. From describing the production of a fiber much more durable and economic than wood, the documentary discusses hemps multilateral uses as e.g. food products, as a non-polluting fuel and as a pharmaceutical product with much less grievous side-effects than chemical pharmaceutical products. The film also investigates why America went from a country which produced vast quantities of the non-narcotic industrial hemp, to the complete ban on hemp production in 1938. This story in particular is interesting, and it points out that the large oil-based industries actually had a key role in the aforementioned ban. Food for thought! The conclusion of the documentary could be that hemp may prove to be a valid alternative to both oil and wood in the future.
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Anthony Clarke
as Self - Narrator
Andrew Weil
as Self - University of Arizona, College of Medicine
Karen Aleay
as Self - Festival Organizer
Eugene Collins
as Self - Tantawangalo Catchment Protection Association
John R Stahl
as Self - The Evanescent Press
Sherri Tonn
as Self - Sierra Club
Maria Desmet
as Self - Director, Hemp Research Agrotechnological Institute
Jean Paul Matthieu
as Self - Director, French Hemp Federation
Patsy Harmsen
as Self - Hemp for Paper Consortium
Jim Young
as Self - Executive Editor, 'Pulp & Paper' Magazine
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