A VISION OF AN EXCITING FUTURE IN A HEMP WORLD ｜ 工业大麻带来的美好愿景

Contribution by:

©Charles B. Kovess

CEO, Textile & Composite Industries Pty Ltd

Secretary, Australian Industrial Hemp Alliance

9 October 2020

This is a story.

This is my vision of an exciting future that is available to Australians, Chinese, and everyone in a new, industrial hemp world that I am confident is on its way!

So, put on your imagination hat.

This story that I predict will soon be very close to your real experiences.

You wake up at 5.45 am in the morning, covered in beautiful, warm, highly-energised natural fibre hemp sheets. Sleeping between hemp sheets is a truly unique experience, and you learnt that you need to start with one sheet only for the first week, and then graduate to both sheets.

Why?

Because the sheets are almost living things and until you become accustomed to them, they can keep you ‘buzzing’ all night.

You easily jump out of bed, because you are so healthy, and you’ve had a most refreshing and nourishing sleep.

Your home is made of hempcrete, a wonderful material that breathes all year round, contains no chemicals, and keeps your home at a steady 21 degrees centigrade without the need for heating and cooling. Your gas and electricity costs are minimal.

You drink your (legal) CBD-infused filtered water, and then get into your exercise regime after your normal 20-minute meditation about, and envisioning of, your upcoming day.

Your exercise gear only needs to be washed once each week, thereby preserving and protecting the quality and valuable materials and saving you plenty of money.

On your breakfast cereal and fruit, you sprinkle your hemp seeds, and you enjoy the toasted hemp bread smothered in lovely, natural butter (no margarine). The hemp bread is so tasty, you don’t need anything else on it, and because it’s organic or, even better, biological bread, you don’t need more than two slices because it is so nourishing.

Your high-fashion work outfit, and low-fashion casual day outfit, are all made out of hemp textiles, or hemp and organic cotton blend textiles. Shirts, suits, underwear, socks, jeans and t-shirts: all made out of hemp.

And do you know what’s amazing?

You can wear hemp clothing for weeks without washing and without any smell or body odour. It is a naturally antibacterial and antibiotic fibre that stops your perspiration bacteria from replicating, so there is no smell.

Your cosmetics and body care products are also all made from, or contain, healthy hemp-based oils. No harm is caused to your skin and body, unlike many standard commercial cosmetics.

Now, it’s off to work you go.

You get into your electric car, whose panels are made entirely of hemp composite materials. They are light and stronger than steel, resulting in excellent energy consumption efficiency.

The lubricants for your car are all made from hemp seed oil, and, if you don’t have an electric car, your fuel source is ethanol made from hemp hurd, the core of the industrial hemp plant.

Road noise during the night didn’t bother you because the freeways have effective noise barriers made out of hempcrete. Hempcrete is a carbon sequester, not a greenhouse gas emitter, unlike the concrete production process.

Hemp farmers are wonderfully profitable and able to keep their families successfully on the family farms. Rural and regional areas are all booming, due to such profitability, and the pressures on major cities from population increases from the agricultural sector have reduced.

Traffic flow in the city has improved.

And farmers know there are so many ways to utilize their crops that there will always be profitable markets for hemp.

Your morning tea is a beautiful hemp seed biscuit, accompanied by excellent coffee or tea or your favourite herbal tea.

Your office is also constructed of hempcrete, with fittings inside made of hemp composite materials. The office has much-reduced glues, chemicals, formaldehydes, and other building products that can accumulate over time and impact on your immune system. Buildings that are built of hempcrete are cheaper to run and have government incentives for their reduced net carbon emissions.

Your lunch includes hemp seeds sprinkled over your salad, and hemp seed oil, fresh, infused into the salad; the chef knows by now that you don’t heat hemp seed oil. Its omega-3 and omega-6 nutrients, among many others, are damaged by heating.

You drink plenty of water, but because your office doesn’t need air-conditioning, you avoid the tiring, dehydrating negatives of such an environment.

Because you’ve been able to be so productive, you leave the office by 4.30 pm, in time to have a great time with your children and spouse, all wearing hemp clothing, prior to a wonderful dinner that also contains hemp-based portions of many different possibilities.

Your washing loads have reduced, as has your consumption of chemicalized washing powders. As a consequence of so many people wearing hemp clothes, the volume of washing powder waste pouring into our rivers and oceans has reduced dramatically.

Your waste disposal volume has also reduced to a remarkable extent.

Most packaging is being made out of hemp materials that are compostable, recyclable and biodegradable.

You then settle down to watch a great program on Netflix or Stan on TV. Your electricity needs are powered by your solar system on your roof, with hemp composite roof tiles, but the government has also utilized hemp-based ethanol to power electricity generators to make up for renewable energy shortfalls.

So, it’s off to bed you go. You are looking forward to once again enjoying the amazing feeling of those natural, warm, inviting hemp sheets.

You feel healthy.

You think healthy.

You have the energy you need to live the life of your dreams.

Your family is healthy.

A hemp-based future will do that.

Why?

Because hemp gives us HPx4 –

• Healthy Products

• Healthy People

• Healthy Planet

• Healthy Profits!

I can see this future.

I can see it coming.

I hope you can too.

It is a magnificent, global opportunity for all of us on Spaceship Earth.

我想给大家讲一个故事。

故事里包含了我对由工业大麻带来的全新世界的激动人心的展望，这将造福全世界的人们。我相信，这个新世界并不遥远。

我预想的未来情景很快就会变成真实的日常场景。

让我们来一起想象一下。

清晨5点45分，你渐渐醒来，身上盖着的是工艺精美并且舒适温暖的天然大麻纤维被单。盖麻质被单是一种非常独特的体验。刚开始使用的第一周只能先盖单层，然后再换成双层。

这是为什么呢？

因为大麻被单仿佛有生命一般，需要你花时间去适应，不然可能会让你兴奋一整晚。

你轻轻松松地起床，感觉到周身舒爽，晚上睡了个好觉。

你的家是由麻凝土建造的，这种神奇的材料一年四季都在呼吸，不含任何化学物质，使你的家稳定地保持在21摄氏度，完全不需要冷暖气，大大减少了你的电费和煤气费。

喝上一口（合法的）浸泡了大麻二酚的过滤水，像往常一样做20分钟的冥想，你准备开始锻炼了。

你的运动装备只需要每周一洗，这样能更好地保护这种优质材料，还能省钱。

在早餐麦片和水果上，撒上大麻籽，享用一片抹了天然黄油的烤大麻面包。不需要额外添加食材，大麻面包本身的味道就好极了。这是因为它是有机更是生物面包。吃两片就够了，你能从中获取充足的营养。

无论是高级的工作套装还是休闲的每日穿着都是用大麻纺织品或者是大麻有机棉混纺纺织品做成的。衬衫、西装、内衣、袜子、牛仔裤和T恤，衣橱里充斥着麻质衣物。

你知道最神奇的是什么吗?

你可以连续几周穿麻制衣服也不需要清洗，竟然不会产生任何味道或体臭。大麻是一种天然的抗菌和抗生素纤维，可以阻止汗液细菌的复制，所以不会产生味道。

你的化妆品和身体护理产品也都是由或含有健康的大麻基油做成的。不像许多标准的商业化妆品那样，它不会对你的皮肤和身体造成伤害。

到了上班时间了。

坐进你的电动汽车里，汽车面板完全是由大麻复合材料制成。重量轻，强度比钢高，能耗效率高。

车子用的润滑油都是用大麻籽油做的。如果你开的不是电动汽车，车子燃料来源于大麻外皮生产的乙醇，这是工业大麻工厂的核心。

夜间的道路噪音不会影响到你，因为高速公路上有由麻凝土制成的高效隔音屏障。与混凝土的生产过程不同，麻凝土是一种碳螯合剂，并不释放温室气体。

大麻种植是非常有利可图，能够成功地让种植者的家庭通过家庭农场维持生活。由于这种盈利能力，偏远地区也在蓬勃发展，农业部门由于人口增长给主要城市带来的压力也减轻了。同时城市的交通状况也有所改善。

农民们知道，他们的作物用途多广，大麻市场总是有利可图的。

你的早茶是一块美味的大麻籽饼干，再配上一杯咖啡、茶或你最喜欢的花茶。

你工作的办公室也是由麻凝土建造的，内部配件由麻复合材料制成。办公室里的胶水、化学物质、甲醛和其他建筑材料浓度大大降低。这些有害物质会随着时间的推移累积起来，对你的免疫系统造成影响。用麻凝土建造的建筑维护成本更低，同时还能由于减少净碳排放的优势得到政府的补贴。

你的午餐包括洒在沙拉上的大麻籽，以及渗透进沙拉的新鲜大麻籽油。厨师现在已经清楚地知道，大麻籽油不能加热。它富含的欧米伽-3和欧米伽-6营养素，以及许多其他营养素，会因加热而受损。

你会大量地喝水，但因为办公室不需要空调，就不会出现那种令人疲惫、脱水的不良环境。

因为你工作效率高，你在下午四点半的时候就下班了，这样就有时间与你的孩子和另一半度过美好的时光。大家都穿着麻制的衣服，享受美妙的晚餐，晚餐也有很多含有大麻成分的菜肴。

你的洗衣量减少了，你使用的化学洗衣粉也减少了。由于越来越多的人穿麻制衣物，流入河流和大海的洗衣粉废物量也大幅减少。

家庭废物处理量也大大减少了。

大多数包装由大麻材料制成的，可制成堆肥、可回收、可生物降解。

晚餐后，你静下心来在Netflix或Stan上看一个很棒的节目。家中用电是由屋顶上的太阳能系统提供的，屋顶铺的是大麻复合瓦。同时政府也利用大麻乙醇来发电，以弥补可再生能源的短缺。

夜深了，是时候睡觉了。你期待再次享受自然温暖的麻制床单的美妙感觉。

你感觉自己非常健康。

你的精神非常健康。

你有充足的精力去过你梦想中的生活。

你的家庭关系也非常健康。

这些都多亏了大麻的功劳。

为什么呢？

因为大麻能带给我们四项HP ：

• Healthy Products 健康的产品

• Healthy People 健康的人

• Healthy Planet 健康的地球

• Healthy Profits 可观的利润！

这是我能预想到的未来。

我能预见它的到来。

希望你也是。

对全球所有人类来说，这都是一个宏伟的机会。

©Charles B. Kovess

CEO, Textile & Composite Industries Pty Ltd

Secretary, Australian Industrial Hemp Alliance

9 October 2020

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