1. Environmental Network
Week 3
Presented by Zach Schaab

2. Today’s Agenda
 Short Informational on Hemp
 Discussing UB’s Hemp Event presented by UBEN
 Planning and Organizing for UB Hemp Event
 Design Problems
 Discussing New Ideas/Possibilities

3. All About Hemp
 What is Hemp?
 Hemp is a variety of
Cannabis Sativa
 This is not a drug. It
contains > 1% THC
 Hemp can grow 18 feet
tall and is the biggest
cash crop in the world

4. What Can Hemp do for
Us?
 Hemp is the most useful
plant in the world if not
the universe.
 Popular Science came out
with an article in 1938
calling hemp the new
Trillion Dollar Crop
 Hemp can be grown in
every state in the United
States including Alaska.

5. O What Hemp Can Do

6. Why Hemp Should be
Legal
Fuel
 Because of the genetic make up of Hemp it can be
used an as extremely efficient Bio-Fuel
 Hemp fuel releases water vapor when burned
Paper
 Substituting today’s paper products with Hemp Paper
would stop deforestation across the planet
 Hemp paper is stronger and more durable than regular
paper

7. Why Hemp Should be
Legal
 Hemp as fiber
 Hemp is one of the
strongest fibers known to
man.
 Its fibrous stem can replace
any single fabric that we
use today
 Betsy Ross sewed the very
first American Flag from
Hemp
 Hemp replenishes instead of
depleting soil
 It can be grown over and
over, each time renewing
the soil

8. Why Hemp Isn’t Legal
 Politics
 Because Hemp can replace 90% of the things we wear
today big Corporations have the lobbying power to
keep Hemp far away from the Legislature
 The same reason follows with the Logging Industry,
Cosmetic Industry, Industrial Textiles (Carpets,
Flooring, Rope, Twine, Brake Liners, Caulking,
Canvas, and Tarps), Consumer Textiles (Hand Bags,
Shoes, Fibers, Denim, Apparel and Diapers),
Building Materials (Insulation, Cement, Mortar,
Plywood), The entire Food industry, and even the
God dam oil Industry

9. Why Hemp Isn’t Legal
 Reefer Madness
 Caused a frenzy among
all of your grandparents
 Hemp was unfairly
grouped with Marijuana
as a drug and was cast
out by the public and the
law in the United States
of America
 Government played the
biggest role in twisting
the public eye away from
Hemp

10. Anyway…
 Hemp Week at UB – September 23- 27
 Hopefully a few head shops will be coming to campus
to sell what they have
 Hemp sales are great but the actual club has to
participate in something
What can UBEN to do advocate for the legalization of
Hemp?
- Tabling, Petition to NYS Legislature, and
Education
- Hemp bracelet making?

11. Design Problems
 Giving Tree Design will not be put on the T-Shirts
because of Copyright issues.
 What now?
 What about this design?
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12. New Ideas
 Open to discussion for new ideas
 Lets hear what you have to say about Hemp Week
at UB
 Tabling Ideas
 Thoughts, Comments