00:00 When I actually started to take a look at the numbers and just how green the
00:04 car was, it was amazing to me. That's when I was convinced I have to make this car
00:08 out of cannabis.
00:11 You'll probably think that looks like a regular fiberglass car or even a steel
00:25 car just looking at it. When you go up and you touch it and you knock on it
00:28 you'll go like wow that's fiberglass but actually it's not fiberglass. We used
00:32 about typically about three plies of woven hemp and that made it rigid
00:37 enough to keep its shape. Built by Bruce Dietzen, this stunning sports car is made
00:43 from around a hundred pounds of hemp as well as being a lot lighter than
00:47 fiberglass or steel. The unusual material has another impressive quality. It's ten
00:52 times more dent resistant than steel. I'm not going to do that right now.
00:59 Although this prototype is built on a Mazda chassis, Bruce hopes that if the
01:04 car gets to production that too will be made from hemp. He took his inspiration
01:09 from Henry Ford, the great pioneer of affordable motoring who was said to have
01:14 experimented with hemp as both a material and a fuel in the 1940s. Not
01:20 everyone is familiar with Henry Ford's cannabis car. It was made not only out of
01:25 cannabis but also used soy for the resin and it also used flax and some other
01:30 things wheat straw etc. The most interesting aspect of that car is that
01:36 he used both cannabis for the strength in the body and then he also used
01:41 cannabis remnants he would make that into a fuel. His car, incredibly, was about
01:48 three times greener than today's electric vehicles because of how it was
01:52 made and then how it was fueled. Bruce estimates that building the car cost him
01:57 around $200,000 in cash and a further $200,000 in lost earnings but he hopes
02:04 his project will help him spread his environmental message. It sets an example
02:09 and it lets people know that we can make everything out of plants. That's what
02:16 Henry Ford was really out to tell everyone when he created his first
02:20 cannabis car. So you pull up buddy, car's amazing. Thank you. Amazing. This is
02:27 beautiful. We may not be able to pull up to our local gas stations right now and
02:31 say fill it up with hemp gasoline because we have to wait for these fuel
02:35 companies to catch up and start doing the right thing. It's really a symbolic
02:39 product right now but I think as we go into the future we're gonna see more and
02:43 more companies realizing that what we have to do is start making things from
02:47 plants if we're going to turn things around and start to reverse climate
02:51 change. As well as wanting to get the car to manufacture, Bruce is developing a TV
02:56 show featuring the car which will look at all the possibilities for the use of
03:00 hemp in the future. I live in Florida. Hemp is still illegal to grow in Florida.
03:07 I had to import the woven material all the way from China because we still
03:12 don't even have facilities that can make fabrics like like this out of hemp. It
03:17 has to come out of places like China. What a terrible wasted opportunity.
03:20 We could be employing all these people. We're gonna take the car around the
03:24 country and investigate these things because if cannabis can be used this
03:28 many different ways we've got to accelerate the process of making it
03:32 legal across the country and start using it more and more and more for both
03:37 ecological purposes and medical purposes etc.
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