00:00When I actually started to take a look at the numbers and just how green the
00:04car was, it was amazing to me. That's when I was convinced I have to make this car
00:08out of cannabis.
00:19You'll probably think that looks like a regular fiberglass car or even a steel
00:25car just looking at it. When you go up and you touch it and you knock on it
00:28you'll go like wow that's fiberglass but actually it's not fiberglass. We used
00:32about typically about three plies of woven hemp and that made it rigid
00:37enough to keep its shape. Built by Bruce Dietzen, this stunning sports car is made
00:43from around a hundred pounds of hemp as well as being a lot lighter than
00:47fiberglass or steel. The unusual material has another impressive quality. It's ten
00:52times more dent resistant than steel. I'm not going to do that right now.
00:59Although this prototype is built on a Mazda chassis, Bruce hopes that if the
01:04car gets to production that too will be made from hemp. He took his inspiration
01:09from Henry Ford, the great pioneer of affordable motoring who was said to have
01:14experimented with hemp as both a material and a fuel in the 1940s. Not
01:20everyone is familiar with Henry Ford's cannabis car. It was made not only out of
01:25cannabis but also used soy for the resin and it also used flax and some other
01:30things wheat straw etc. The most interesting aspect of that car is that
01:36he used both cannabis for the strength in the body and then he also used cannabis
01:42remnants he would make that into a fuel. His car, incredibly, was about three times
01:49greener than today's electric vehicles because of how it was made and then how
01:53it was fueled. Bruce estimates that building the car cost him around two
01:58hundred thousand dollars in cash and a further two hundred thousand dollars in
02:02lost earnings but he hopes his project will help him spread his environmental
02:07message. It sets an example and it lets people know that we can make everything
02:14out of plants. That's what Henry Ford was really out to tell everyone when he
02:20created his first cannabis car. So you pull up buddy, the car's amazing. Thank you.
02:25Amazing. This is beautiful. We may not be able to pull up to our local gas stations
02:31right now and say fill it up with hemp gasoline because we have to wait for
02:35these fuel companies to catch up and start doing the right thing. It's really
02:38a symbolic product right now but I think as we go into the future we're gonna see
02:42more and more companies realizing that what we have to do is start making
02:46things from plants if we're going to turn things around and start to reverse
02:51climate change. As well as wanting to get the car to manufacture, Bruce is
02:55developing a TV show featuring the car which will look at all the possibilities
03:00for the use of hemp in the future. I live in Florida. Hemp is still illegal to grow
03:07in Florida. I had to import the woven material all the way from China because
03:12we still don't even have facilities that can make fabrics like like this out
03:16of hemp. It has to come out of places like China. What a terrible wasted
03:20opportunity. We could be employing all these people. We're gonna take the
03:23car around the country and investigate these things because if cannabis can be
03:28used this many different ways we've got to accelerate the process of making it
03:33legal across the country and start using it more and more and more for both
03:37ecological purposes and medical purposes, etc.
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