{"id":12662,"date":"2011-12-27T13:04:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T21:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/?p=12662"},"modified":"2011-12-27T13:04:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T21:04:59","slug":"harvey-wasserman-shares-a-bright-future-with-the-legalization-of-industrial-hemp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/2011\/12\/27\/harvey-wasserman-shares-a-bright-future-with-the-legalization-of-industrial-hemp\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Wasserman shares a bright future with the legalization of industrial hemp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hemp is a maligned crop that can reduce dependency on grid-oriented energy. Sharing his ideas is Harvey Wasserman, a life-long proponent of energy alternatives.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Author or co-author of a dozen books, Harvey Wasserman (<a href=\"http:\/\/harveywasserman.com\/\" title=\"Harvey Wasserman's website\">click here<\/a> to go to his website) teaches U.S. History, Western Civilization and Cultural Diversity at Columbus State Community College and Capital University in central Ohio. His writings appear in a number of well-known media sites, including Common Dreams, CounterPunch, Buzzflash, and the Huffington Post. He also serves as senior editor for The Free Press, a disseminator of Progressive news and commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Since the turbulent 1960s, Wasserman has been a prominent advocate for alternative energy, election and environmental protection, peace, and social justice. Wasserman joined pop luminaries Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, and Graham Nash in founding a grassroots group called <a href=\"http:\/\/nukefree.org\/about\">NukeFree.org<\/a> that helped stop a $50 billion federal loan guarantee program proposed by the nuclear reactor industry in 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Books by Harvey Wasserman<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/SOLARTOPIA-Our-Green-Powered-Earth-2030\/dp\/0975340247\">SOLARTOPIA! Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/HARVEY-WASSERMANS-HISTORY-UNITED-STATES\/dp\/0975340204\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1325018650&#038;sr=1-1\">Harvey Wasserman&#8217;s History of the U.S.<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Glimpse-Big-Light-Parents-Finding\/dp\/0975340220\/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1325018650&#038;sr=1-3\">A Glimpse of the Big Light: Losing Parents, Finding Spirit<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stole-Americas-2004-Election-Rigging\/dp\/097534028X\">How the GOP Stole America&#8217;s 2004 Election &#038; Is Rigging 2008<\/a> (co-authored with Bob Fitrakis).<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Happened-Ohio-Documentary-Election\/dp\/B005HKT4JQ\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1325024612&#038;sr=1-1\">What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary Record of Theft And Fraud in the 2004 Election<\/a> (co-authored with Bob Fitrakis and Steven Rosenfeld)<br \/>\n\u2022 Harvesting Wind Energy as a Cash Crop: A Guide to Community-Owned Wind Farming (co-authored with Dan Juhl).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/naihc.org\/hemp_information\/hemp_facts.html\">North American Industrial Hemp Council &#8211; Hemp Facts<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Hemp has been grown for at least the last 12,000 years for fiber and food. It has been effectively prohibited in the United States since the 1950s.<br \/>\n\u2022 George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp. Ben Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper. Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence on hemp paper.<br \/>\n\u2022 The products that can be made from hemp number over 25,000.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hemp is a maligned crop that can reduce dependency on grid-oriented energy. 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