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Letter: Policy needed on hemp as building product.

Don Barnard {Legalise Cannabis Alliance]

Braintree & Witham Times

Thursday 10 May 2001

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POLICY NEEDED ON HEMP AS BUILDING MATERIAL

PLANT fibres can save much of the energy needed to make cars,
caravans even lorries and result in parts that are 40 per cent lighter
and are at least 65 cents cheaper per pound than fibreglass, can be
recycled s­ily - and they are biodegradable

A company called Indiana Bio-Composites will make a recyclable exterior
panel for a mobile ho me from kenaf, a cordlike hibiscus, in the next
two years.

Researchers at the Univer­sity of Warwick [US] are work­ing to convert a
nine-loot-tall crop known as elephant grass into a tough material fit
for biodegradable car bodies by 2006.

Car makers, have already begun to replace fibreglass with natural plant
fibres. Last year in North America, follow­ing in the foot steps of their
European counter parts such as Fords, BMW, replaced 2 percent of the
fibreglass in mats, seat backs, parcel shelves , door panels, and other
plastic composites with plant stalks According to the New Jersey [US]
consulting firm Kline & Company natural fibre's are expected to replace
a fifth of the fibreglass in today's automobile interiors By 2010.

Biodegradable cars from nat­ural fibres [growing a car from the soil]
now, that would con­stitute the real engineering triumph?

One problem but a big one: The leading fibre in this field is cannabis
hemp - Too bad it's a controlled substance: Even though the stalks have
negligi­ble effect the government views growing industrial hemp without
a licence - cannabis, after all - as tantamount to growing the weed
of wisdom.

Questions: How green is green? Why doesn't Geenpeace have a policy on
hemp Why is there no mention of hemp in the green party's manifesto?

Don Barnard,
Legalise Cannabis Alliance

 

 

 

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