The Hemp Revolution (1995)

This documentary covers a whole lot of ground It deals with every historical and contemporary aspect of hemp usage and cultivation mainly in the US which turns out to be a lot From describing the production of a fiber much more durable and economic than wood the documentary discusses hemps multilateral uses as eg food products as a nonpolluting fuel and as a pharmaceutical product with much less grievous sideeffects than chemical pharmaceutical products The film also investigates why America went from a country which produced vast quantities of the nonnarcotic industrial hemp to the complete ban on hemp production in 1938 This story in particular is interesting and it points out that the large oilbased industries actually had a key role in the aforementioned ban Food for thought The conclusion of the documentary could be that hemp may prove to be a valid alternative to both oil and wood in the future