Billion Dollar Crop is a film about cannabis or hemp as it is also known and its potential industrial and agricultural uses. The film reveals the conspiracies behind the original prohibition of cannabis. It investigates the prejudices surrounding its use as a recreational drug that are preventing one of the world's richest sources of food, fibre, fuel and medicine to be cultivated in Australia. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/the-billion-dollar-crop-1994/3833/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/the-billion-dollar-crop-1994/3833/</a> <br /><br />This surprising video explains the environmental interest in the non-drug variety of hemp as a versatile industrial fibre, and documents the history of its prohibition. <br />Backed by years of worldwide research, Billion Dollar Crop exposes the political and industrial manipulations, which outlawed one of the most valued plants in history. Hemp once provided the paper on which US banknotes were printed, the cloth for the original Levi jeans, as well as the sails and rigging of ships. During World War II it was of such strategic importance that the US Government encouraged farmers to convert to hemp cultivation.<br /><br />Billion Dollar Crop shows how the recently developed, non-drug variety of hemp is being researched and cultivated internationally because of the plant's versatile qualities and environmental friendliness. This program takes the audience on a world tour from Australia to the United Kingdom, and from The Netherlands to France and the US. It illustrates how hemp is being cultivated as an industrial fibre for use as an alternative to wood for paper production, to cotton for clothes, and to plywood for construction. We all benefit, especially our forests and topsoil. <br /><br />Directed by Barbara Ann Chobocky <br />Produced with Michael Cordell and Jeffrey Bruer <br /><br />DVD ISBN: 1-59458-321-8 (1594583218) <br />VHS ISBN: 1-56029-649-6 (1560296496) <br /><br />- [Internet Archive](<a href="https://archive.org/details/the-billion-dollar-crop" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/the-billion-dollar-crop</a>)<br /><br />Source: VHS cassette <br />Format: PAL <br />Mode: SP <br /><br />This recording is intended for historical preservation. Copyright is held by their respective owners. <br />Analogue to digital conversion is a time consuming process as it must be done in real time monitoring the video tracking and audio levels with a mixing console. <br /><br />- [Didz](<a href="https://didz.me" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://didz.me</a>) <br />- [Didzcord](<a href="https://discord.didz.me" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://discord.didz.me</a>) <br />- [Twitch](<a href="https://twitch.tv/didz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://twitch.tv/didz</a>)