How Hemp Saves Lives

Verne L. Chinampas (moistearth@yahoo.com)
Sun, 3 May 1998 22:36:09 -0700 (PDT)

EES

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How many people are dying annually from NOT growing hemp?
By Eric Skidmore

5,000 - 10,000 deaths yearly from pesticide-related cancers.

Cotton uses 40% of pesticides (in U.S.; 11-15% worldwide).

Cotton is grown on 5 million acres.

Cotton causes 2,000 - 4,000 deaths yearly (from pesticides).

If 1 million acres of hemp were to replace 1 million acrees of cotton,
1 million acres of hemp saves 400-800 lives!

Chlorine (used to bleach tree pulp for paper) causes 10% of all
cancers.
That's another story.

EES

Review of National Academy of Science's estimates of pesticide-caused
cancers: http://www.alaska.net/~anc4hemp/es328.html

Pesticides and Cotton
http://www.alaska.net/~anc4hemp/es320.html

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