Thread: Using Hemp trees instead

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Originally Posted by Harry72

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I used to have a pair of hemp jeans which was the best pair of jeans I ever owned. Came straight off the clothes line after being washed nice and soft rather than like the cardboard of denim

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Originally Posted by matildasmate

Wasnt that company Mons----- .Cheers MM

I am in busselton on hols atm and I just bought 2 shirts and a jumper made from hemp from a store in Margaret River that only sells products made from hemp

I must say that so far I am very impressed with the robustness and wearability of the clothes

I will definitely be buying more even though they are slightly more expensive

On the doco I saw on the telly they said hemp production was stopped before the second world war; but they couldn't produce enough nylon for ropes for the war so they started growing it again then after the war burnt the crops that were left.

I have a pair of trousers that I bought in Target about 12 years ago. made in China of Rame, Rana or some such name. Apparently another name for hemp. Can't wear them out and very soft to wear.
I have been trying to buy more.

I love hemp clothing they just won't wear out, they just get softer with age.

waht about jute.

Jute fibre is often called hessian; would you want to wear potatoe sacks? But it does have many other uses, maybe it could be used for paper aswell.

The only problem with hemp is many people automatically connect it to the drug as shown by some posts here.

It has as much to do with the weed people smoke as poppy seeds on your bread has to do with heroin.
They are from same family and they do contain levels of the drug, but its at levels so low as to be negligable.

The half named company is not the only culprit, the cotton industry as a whole worked hard to ensure that hemp was connected to the illicit varieties in order to wipe out the competition.

Hemp is far less evironmentally damaging and more versatile than cotton, clothes made from it last far longer so many companies will not use it (it lasts too long) and it makes good paper as already mentioned.

The paper labels that came on my hemp clothing, said that the THC content is 3% (i.e. the stuff that people smoke Mary's Pajamas for).

So I was wondering if I went to the airport clothed in my new hemp jeans and shirts, would I be attacked by a pack of voracious Beagles?

They banned plastic shopping bags with no environmentally responsible replacement to make up for it... hemp fibre would make nice cheap bio-degradable/recyclable paper bags, probably make good compost too!

you're spot on with all these positive comments, but you just watch the look on a dedicated anti pot smoker when u mention cannabis for clothes or paper - you can see them trying to remember the dob in a druggy hotline. And yet these same people will love poppy seeds on their bread rolls, they could well have poppies growing in their gardens - with some beautiful flowers i might add. Here in tas they think nothing when they drive past hundreds of acres of poppies - the real deal poppies too.
Cannabis has been demonized by scum bag politicians & god botheres for too many years, the yet poppies produce a drug that is by far more addictive, more damaging to your health & society - it just happens that it also makes an excellent acute pain releiver & extreem pain is something that a large percentage of the population will need suppressed at some time in their lives.
So we go on with cannabis in all its forms still illegal in most parts of the western world all the time using products from alternate sources that are vastly inferior & are much less enviromentally friendly & producing far more waste as well as ignoring its medicinal benifits to the terrible detrument of sufferes of debilitating diseases such as MS & glucoma just to name a couple.