Hemp for Victory

Rigging.

"Because it was a matter of national survival, the rulers made cultivation mandatory, and even in World War II, the US government had a policy of hemp for victory and encouraged citizens to grow it." Well, we were very pleased to, to find out, Gary, uh, that really, uh, hemp is, uh, coming forward as a very, very useful product in insulation.

Acoustically, it's great as well, and it used to be a minor industry, and it's growing because, uh, Betty made the point, uh, that the cotton industry were way too powerful.

But cotton, of course, uses an enormous amount of water, and, uh, hemp doesn't.

However, due to the cannabis control law forced into Japanese law by the occupying US powers in 1948, hemp may only be grown under license, and these are highly restricted and difficult to obtain.

Now, quick note, this is interesting because there's something called the Hemp for Victory campaign.

During World War II, farmers were basically begged to grow hemp by the United States government to help the war effort.

And then they beat Japan and then they ban hemp from being produced in Japan.

That's interesting, just a quick note.

We'll get into that Hemp for Victory campaign in another video coming soon.

A few months after the incident, Fukushima residents began to plant millions of sunflowers as well as field mustard and amaranth in an attempt to soak up CCM and other toxins from the soil.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency also began an experimental project involving sunflowers in 2011, and various projects since have investigated algae, buckwheat, and spinach for their uptake abilities, but it seems that hemp has not been utilized.