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The Hemp Revolution by Anthony Clark From Emerald fields of cannabis plants to smoking petrochemical plants, A bearded Californian lifting trays of hemp paper to Australian eucalyptus forest decimated for wood pulp. From elderly Nepalese man grinning as he exhales a plume of black-hash smoke to armed narcs kicking in doors while Drug Warriors from 1930's Harry Anslinger to George Bush proclaim imminent victory. |
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| These are the images at war in The Hemp Revolution, an ambitious 75-minute documentary that aspires to be the celluloid equivalent of Jack Herer's book The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Australian director Anthony Clarke's film covers the industrial, medical, recreational and spiritual uses of cannabis. Interviewees in the film include: Lester Grinspoon of Harvard; psychedelics researcher Terence McKenna; medical-marijuana advocate Elvy Musikka. Hemp-particleboard manufacturer Bill Conde says "hemp could start a new Industrial Revolution." |
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In Clarke's vision, the plant's multifarious uses; stalks for paper and cloth, leaves for ethanol fuel production and seeds for food and oil, are a way to end industry's reliance on environmentally destructive synthetics and return the world to a sustainable plant-based economy. This 1997 full color film shows the past, present, and potential future of the cannabis hemp plant. Air date 1997 run time 75 minutes VHS, DVD |