#Hemp Industries News

[merchantservices444]

Decoding High-Risk Products and Services in the Payment Industry

[time4hemp]

These Happy Cannabis Christmas Greeting Cards are cool! I thought I'd share them.

[daleschaferlaw]

Dale Schafer Law News - 10/3/22

Dale Schafer Law News – 10/3/22

#californiacannabis – “New reporting from CapRadio has uncovered further details about how the city has operated its controversial enforcement system: A review of more than 40 search warrant affidavits from 2018 and 2019 shows how the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) routinely sent the Sacramento Police Department lists of customers who used unusually high amounts of electricity,…

[harmonictechnicality]

It’s 1998 and Steve Harrington is waiting in line at a local department store’s Black Friday sale. The new gameboy color was just released a few days earlier - he figures it’ll be the perfect Christmas gift for all of his little dweebie friends.

Eddie Munson is standing directly behind Steve in line. He’s waiting to buy a new guitar amp - been saving his tip money for months and still can’t afford one at full price; he desperately needs any discount he can get.

After about the first hour of waiting, Steve notices Eddie mumbling to himself. Counting, then re-counting the money in his wallet. Steve Harrington has never re-counted money in his life. Never had to worry about not having enough. Especially not like this guy.

They spark up a conversation in the third hour of waiting. Steve compliments Eddie’s industrial bar piercing in his left ear. Eddie compliments Steve’s beaded hemp bracelet. Steve explains that his best friend made it for him after their first summer apart from one another.

By the final hour, they’re both tipsy. Eddie brought a thermos of spiked hot chocolate and offers to share it with Steve. Both of them tell stories about their worst hangovers and reminisce about their most memorable Christmas mornings as kids. They’re both buzzing and giggling at the stupidest shit. Buzzing so much that they don’t even comment on the fact that they’re huddled close together under the wool blanket that Steve supplied. Thighs touching. Arms overlapping.

Steve has finally worked up the courage to loop his pinky finger around Eddie’s when the line begins to move. He’s more than a little disappointed, but they both gather their things and enter the store.

Luckily, Steve is able to snag enough gameboys for his entire crew of nerdlings. As he gets in line, he watches Eddie studying the price on the amp he has been saving for. He re-counts his cash once more, before hanging his head and walking away without his item.

Not wasting a goddamn second, Steve jumps out of line and grabs the amp box off the shelf. Eddie looks back at him, shaking his head.

“Hey man, you don’t have to do that.” Eddie pleads with him.

But Steve has never had to worry about not having enough. Not even once.

“I know I don’t have to.” Steve shrugs, lugging all of his items to the checkout counter. “But it’s the season of giving, or whatever hallmark shit they say.”

Eddie protests a few more times, but Steve is adamant on doing this. It feels right.

As they walk out of the store, Eddie digs in his back pocket, pulling out a wrinkled neon flyer.

“You should come see my band next Friday.” Eddie hands the paper to Steve, then motions to the amp. “You know, to see this beauty in action.”

Steve nods. “Yeah, okay. I’ll be there.”

The sun is starting to rise as they both load up their cars. Steve is about to turn the key in the ignition when he acts on his impulses. He runs up to Eddie, who is closing the trunk of his van.

“Here.” Steve grabs Eddie’s wrist and pulls out a black ink pen. He scribbles his phone number there, only legible enough for Eddie to read it.

“Just in case you want to see me before next Friday.”

Steve walks away before he can see Eddie’s reaction, good or bad. He’s brave, but not that brave.

“Hey, Steve!” Eddie calls back.

“Yeah?” Steve takes a deep breath, then turns around. Can’t avoid his reaction now.

"Thank you for this." Eddie winks. "All of this."

He waves his wrist, the one with Steve's phone number sprawled all over it.

"Anytime." Steve answers back. He heads back to his car full of gifts. Smiling the whole ride home.

Eddie calls Steve that Sunday night and they spend their evening just like they had on Black Friday: talking until the sun comes up.

[greenhorizonblog]

Fingerprint locked wealth

The main thing a lot of people don't seem to understand is that, you really can't take money/wealth from the rich and give it to the poor in the way you used to. The rich do not actually hold any real cash or gold in some big treasure room. The vast majority of their wealth is in assets and companies etc.

And the main crux of this is that the value of said companies has THEIR fingerprint on it. It is only worth what it is because THEY own it. If someone somehow took over Amazon by force in some way, or if the government did, the value of that company would immediately tank, which means all the money it's worth goes poof!

The monetary value of that company has Bezo's fingerprint on it. Only he can unlock it, this is what is so insidious. I have grown up around these types of people. They do not see you as human. They do not think of you at all actually. It's like you don't exist to them, because they almost never see anyone outside their own class.

I know it sounds counterintuitive but our mission should not be to take the wealth from the wealthy, because that is both life threatening and futile. But rather, we should aim to make their wealth worthless indirectly, by not participating in the system anymore. Opt out. Refuse the deal. Don't buy their shit. We are aiming to create that possibility of opting out asap.

GreenHorizon's phase 1 goals will be to establish food sovereignty and licence to grow industrial hemp, create new sustainable housing developments and eco villages to be given to vulnerable people for free, then regular people later also for free. Then we begin to start our own free healthcare clinics, of which the nurses and doctors will also be given free housing close by. We would maybe have a local currency in the beginning and then gradually transition into a mutual aid union of communities/tribes.

This is how we opt out. I will be starting the charity officially next year asap, I already have some trustees secured. Follow to be part of the revolution

GreenHorizon

Hope is the seed of progress

[th3d0nutl0rd]

I've finally found someone else who likes Devereaux from Renegade Nell 😭😭 I adored your headcanons for him, please don't let that be all 🙏🙏🙏

Oh my gosh my prayers have been answered, I have been having a lot of thoughts about him recently 🙏🙏

What if his engagement to Eularia was not of his own volition- what if his father's gambling landed them in a tough spot financially, which resulted in him marrying his son to a wealthy older woman like Eularia against his will 🥲 it's sad to think about but would make sense in the given context

Alternatively, maybe he really is just the sober Jack Sparrow type- he'll flirt with anyone if it can get him out of a bad situation. So if the first one was a bit too depressing for you, you can always think of it this way too.

Early in the show he mentions the growing industries in the Americas (as we know now many of these would end up being Plantations) but he did mention hemp. If you haven't looked into it before, the hemp industry in America from the mid 1600s-1700s is really interesting, and it's funny to think of him as someone who wants to potentially oversee it (I believe it was popular amongst British mariners and had several different uses less common to us now than at the time)

Imagine him, based in America, exploiting British mariners with hemp... Amazing...

Also I'm British, and study history at college so I can tell you that if you were to insert yourself into this universe it's entirely plausible that y/n would be able to grow up alongside Devereux even as a pauper, let me explain why-

In the 1700s, many poor children or ones who came from lower middle class families (who had titles, but not money) would be educated by local families who were rich, and would pay off their student debt by working in that family's trade

For example if that family were blacksmithing business you might spend a summer in their forge- if they were fishermen you might spend time on their boats. Meaning Charles could've been educated alongside you! Whoo! Perfect setup for a childhood friends type storyline.

Magic tricks! We got to see him do some during the show, and I think it would be so cute to have him show you his favourite tricks, maybe sat huddled in a room at night whispering to each other like giddy teenagers while he shows you some new trick he learned

Leading into this, I also love his general giddiness and excitement as a character. He loves an adventure. He's always got a smile on his face. He's good with kids- we saw it with George. What a sweet guy 😭❤️

OH MY GOD AND THE DANCING!!! LET'S NOT FORGET THE DANCING!!! I have so many thoughts about his dancing I'm probably gonna make a separate post about it so please tell me if that's something you'd like to see

[reasonsforhope]

With breathtaking views over Table Mountain, the world’s tallest building made of industrial hemp is set to open in Cape Town this June.

At 12 stories tall, the Hemp Hotel at 84 Harrison st. used carbon-negative materials that captured more carbon in the walls of the building than it emitted manufacturing them.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa believes that the cannabis and hemp industry could create 130,000 jobs in places like Afrimat Hemp—the producer of the so-called “HempCrete” blocks which went into the hotel.

Made from water, lime, hemp, and a cement binder, the blocks from Afrimat Hemp are made of entirely South African hemp, which along with selling to corporate clients, are also used to build a number of social housing projects in South Africa and neighbouring Mozambique.

For the Hemp Hotel, Afrimat Hemp partnered with Wolf Architects in Cape Town for the build.

The company admit that hemp construction is 20% more expensive than traditional materials, but the urgency with which some corporations want to help tackle climate change offers them a unqiue opportunity: selling carbon credits—but with buildings, rather than trees.

“We can fund forests, or we can fund someone to live in a hemp house. It’s the same principle,” Afrimat Hemp’s carbon consultant Wihan Bekker told African News.

Company data shows that a 430 square foot house (40 square meters) produces 30 fewer tons of carbon than traditional methods, around what a mature tree can sequester in its roots across its lifetime.

-via Good News Network, 5/5/23

[materialsscienceandengineering]

New hemp-based biomaterial to help with global microplastic pollution crisis

Plastic is cheap and light, and conceivably recyclable, which makes it an easy choice for packaging when it comes to food and cosmetics. But it's also potentially toxic and biologically harmful, making it a non-starter for many environmentally responsible and socially conscious companies in Canada and around the world.

Western chemistry professor Elizabeth Gillies, mechanical and materials engineering professor Aaron Price and their research teams worked with industry partner CTK Bio Canada to develop a new biodegradable, hemp-based material that could serve as a sustainable substitute for packaging needs for a wide variety of products.

"When it comes to packaging, plastic replaces things like metal and glass. Those are heavy and expensive," said Gillies, who is also the Canada Research Chair in polymeric biomaterials. "Glass recycling is not a very profitable business and while many plastics are potentially recyclable, it often doesn't happen in practice."

This lack of recycling, compounded by a global microplastics pollution crisis, led Gillies and her team to find a degradable 'plastic' to solve the problem, or in this case, a hemp-based product.

Read more.

[reality-detective]

They lied about pretty much everything 👇

Natural meds will be back as the primary source of healing. The inverted & distorted programming has labeled natural medicines as the alternative medicine — when the truth is that Rockefeller-produced big pharma is only been around for 100 years, when natural, holistic & homeopathy medicine has been around for thousands of years. Big pharma is the alternative harmful medicine. ✨👁✨

Med Beds are a quantum leap into a new healing tech that will eradicate big pharma & transform the old medical system with plasmatic energy & healing frequencies — freeing humanity from the suffering of man-made diseases. This tech has been said to be produced by the military industrial complex’s secret space program based on Tesla Technologies & Jarad Rand.

These quantum healing devices create maximum human repair by Light & energy through Tachyonic particles & plasma. Like Nicola Tesla, Dr Royal Rife also created earlier versions of this technology but was also stopped by the deep state. We live in a vibrational universe & humans are vibrational beings, the healing occurs through a homeopathic frequency realignment approach with little to no side effects. Med Beds are part of NESARA / GESARA along with the public release of over 6,000 patents & cures. New Earth Energy & its physical manifestations are here — hold your vibration as high as possible. ✨🙏🏽🤍✨

Michael Jackson was showing us MED BEDS.

The medical system will collapse and this new technology will be born. 🤔

[shortiecos]

Eco friendly cosplay (Save the environment and your wallet)

Before I begin this post, I want to aknowledge that yes, changes made by individual people  won't do much to save the planet in the long run, and yes we should really hold those big corporations that singlehandedly cause 70% of emission accountable. However, that doesn't mean that we can just go around using products that harm the environment all willy-nilly, and we should do our best to keep our impact to a minimum. The same goes for us cosplayers. I know cosplay is a fun hobby. Some of us use it to escape reality, other to find gender euphoria in it, some people just like to act and this is their way of showing that talent.  But we can't deny that our hobby causes a lot of environmental stress, and we routinely use materials from highly environmentally damaging industries. Let's have a look Fabric we use is often synthetic. It's  made from petrochemicals. EVA foam and thermoplastics are oil byproducts as well. And after that intense, environment-damaging process, most of us only wear the cosplay a few times, before we move on to the next big thing.. How can we change things, while keeping the hobby fun and affordable?

 Shop in your own closet first. Many character actually just wear casual clothes that any random person can own. Check to see if you maybe already do. 

You don't? Oh well. I assume you got a family and/or friends. Check their closet! After that? Thrift thrift thrift! There are so many hidden gems in thriftstores. Altering clothes is also a great way to start your sewing journey. And even if you don't find the clothing item or prop you're looking for, maybe you'll find something else that's useful. Like a leather jacket that yo can use to make those leather accesoires! 

Don't make a new costume for every event. Make a handful that you love, aand wear those to the ground. It'll save you in money and materials, and you will also experience less stress, concrucnhing to try and finish your cosplay in time. I'm not saying you can never make a new cosplay, just do it less impulsively.

 See which parts of your cosplay you can recycle. Maybe you can modefy that one skirt, or paint over the gun you made? See if you can make it work for your next character.

Does everything NEED to be perfect? I know you want to be as accurate as possible. But do you have to reprint that 3D printed sword twice just because it was slightly off? Or do you need to recast that gem in resin 20 times just to get it perfect?  No you don't Do you NEED to make a mock-up dress? I know the materials are expensive, and you don't want to waste any, but what are you doing with the mock-up materials after? 

Continuing from #3, take a look at your fabrics. The entire textile industry is a mess. It's polluting, and often poorly regulated. And not just the synthethic  ones. Even natural fabrics can be bad.  Leather tanneries are awful, and cotton is one of the most chemically intensive crops in the world (still both better than synthetic counterparts) Try hemp, linen, or wool instead of cotton.

Find alternatives for your props. They don't have to be EVA foam and plastic. There are many substitutes. Cardboard, paper mache, recycled wood. Hell, even hotglue instead of resin. Or use things  you already own. Old water bottles can be a great base for sci-fi gubs for example. Be creative! 

Make things work for multiple costumes. An old example that I once used on my instagram: @pretzlcosplay took her Gnar dress and corset, made some new accesories, and poof!: a Cubone cosplay!

Don';t buy a wig for every new cosplay. Ok so this one is common sense I think, and I don't think anyone does this but I had to put it here anyway. That one black wig you own? It;s Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Kirito, Kageyama, Levi Ackerman,  Rin Okumura, and on you go. The same goes for most unnaturally colored wigs. Just look up a few youtube tutorials on wigstyling, and that one wig can be a hundred different characters.

 Buy secondhand cosplays. Loads of cosplayer sell their old cosplays, sometimes even including the wig. You can look on instagram, usually people have story highlights for things they're selling, but facebook is a great way to start too. They got loads of swap/sell groups for cosplayers. Sometimes there are even event son cosn where you can swap cosplays.

If you're a frequent crafter (whatever the reason) try to buy things in bulk. Not only will this reduce your cost over time and decrease packaging waste, but if you often order materials online, this will also reduce your environmental impact as you'll contribute to fewer emissions that come with shipping. 

 Buy samples Buying samples is a great way to know for certain whether the material is the right colour, has the right feel, the right texture, etc.  without having to do a full buy of the material. Same goes for wigs. Most wigsites have colour rings you can order, giving you a small sample of each available colour.

Keep your scraps Maybe you'll find use for them in a future project. Or maybe you can trade with friends. Save your scraps if you're a big DIYer

14. If you have the money, buy the eco friendly version. Technology has come a long way, and we have great substitues for most things. However, these are often more costly then the old (plastic) version. If you have the extra money to spare, please do buy the eco friendly alternative, like the eco friendly fillament for your 3D printer.

[afrotumble]

Cannabis: Wetin Ghana go benefit from legalization of cannabis for industrial purposes - BBC News Pidgin

[daleschaferlaw]

Dale Schafer Law News - 9/27/22

Dale Schafer Law News – 9/27/22

#hemp – “An Oregon State University study has found spent hemp biomass left over from CBD extraction – usually just treated as waste or plowed back into fields – is looking to be a good feed alternative for lambs. Believed to be the first study evaluating the effects of feeding spent hemp biomass to livestock, the research involved feeding lambs different amounts of spent hemp biomass (10% and…

[acti-veg]

Hello, I wanted to ask you what you know about the ethics of buying wool second-hand. I live in a very cold area and for now I've been wearing clothes I owned pre-veganism 8 years ago and buying second hand synthetics (cotton and linen and things like that aren't wearable in extreme cold), but many synthetics don't feel good to wear and my old wool jumpers are getting very dilapidated. I've thought of buying wool from a second hand store, but I know second-hand leather still sometimes fuels the leather industry so I wanted to ask if you know if a similar effect is going on with second-hand wool. I would rather be sweaty in second-hand synthetics than support animal torture in any way, so I'd like to know the un-sugarcoated truth. Thank you very much, love the blog!

There are good thermal options that are synthetic, Sea Shephard for example often operate in the most extreme cold and they wear recycled plastics and hemp, though I’d need to know where you live to recommend specific stores and brands. Most professional thermal clothing in general is synthetic. Those do tend to be expensive though, but so is any good thermal wear, but they’re high quality and will last a long time.

Failing that, second hand is always more sustainable than any material bought new. There is the argument that buying and wearing animal fibres could sort of ‘advertise’ the use of those fabrics, and people seeing them used worn won’t won’t appreciate that they’re second hand, but in most cases I don’t think wool will be distinguishable from synthetics.

Just do what you can anon; if you can get synthetics second hand that is the best option, but if not then go for what is available to you.

[mysticconnoisseurpeace]

Clean Beauty For A Natural Look!

Clean beauty has become a popular term not just in the USA but around the world. Going far beyond a trend, it has become a movement that has united so many people who demand safer and better products. This demand for sustainable and cruelty-free products is at an all-time high, with more people prioritizing their health and the planet.

Frequent shoppers like yourselves increasingly seek transparency from their favorite brands. They want to know where ingredients come from, how products are made, and what impact they have on the planet. This growing awareness has pushed brands like ours to innovate and offer products that are not only effective but also safe and ethical. This shift isn’t just in beauty and selfcare, it's a universal shift towards sustainability and health.

How Dr. Natural Keeps Its Clean Beauty Promise

At Dr. Natural, we take our clean beauty promise seriously. As a selfcare brand, we are always putting YOU first! Your skin’s health is our first priority, followed by supporting sustainability for building a better world together. Our commitment to pure ingredients, safe formulations, and cruelty-free practices sets us apart in the selfcare industry. We believe that what you put on your skin should be as natural and pure as what you put into your body. That's why our products nourish and protect your skin without exposing it to harmful chemicals.

Natural Ingredients: 

Our products are formulated with high-quality natural ingredients like shea butter, coconut oil, olive oil, and hemp. These ingredients are known for their moisturizing, soothing, and healing properties, making them ideal for maintaining healthy, radiant skin.

Chemical-Free: 

We do not  use synthetic fragrances, parabens, sulfates, and other harsh chemicals that can irritate the skin and disrupt its function. Our chemical-free products ensure that your skincare routine is safe and gentle, even for the most sensitive skin types.

Cruelty-Free: 

We are proud to be a cruelty-free brand. None of our products are tested on animals, and we ensure that our suppliers adhere to the same ethical standards. By choosing Dr. Natural, you are supporting a brand that respects our furry friends 

Dr. Natural products are effective and incredibly hydrating to cleanse and preserve skin’s health with nature’s goodness. If you're new to Dr. Natural or looking to expand your collection, here are some of our bestselling products that embody our clean beauty ethos:

Pure Liquid Castile Soap: A versatile and gentle cleanser made with natural essential oils like coconut and shea butter. It's perfect for everyday use, leaving your skin feeling clean, soft, and hydrated. Whether you use it as a body wash, hand soap, or even a shampoo, you'll love its refreshing and non-toxic formula.

Black Soap: Known for its deep cleansing properties, our liquid body soap is made with hydrating plant-based ingredients and is an excellent choice for those with oily or acne-prone skin, as it helps to clear up blemishes and balance oil production. 

Hemp Body Wash: Infused with hemp seed oil, it is the best natural body wash for your sensitive skin. It soothes and moisturizes your skin with a gentle touch. Hemp seed oil is known for its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, making it a great addition to your skincare routine for maintaining healthy and youthful skin.

Achieve natural radiance without compromising on your values. So why not make the switch today and experience the benefits of clean beauty for yourself?

[nicklloydnow]

“We send our cotton to Manchester and Lowell, our sugar to New York refineries, our hides to down-east tanneries and our children to Yankee colleges, and are ever ready to find fault with the North because it lives by our folly. We want home manufactures and these we must have, if we are ever to be independent.

—Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph, 1859

This analysis of the Southern economy on the eve of war was classic. In 1861 the Confederate States had a population of just over 9 million, of whom about 3.5 million were slaves. The population of the United States was approximately 22 million. The South had less than half the railroad mileage of the North, and much of this track (of eleven different gauges) connected points of little military or industrial significance. More than four-fifths of the old Union's manufacturing had been carried on in the North. Southern manufactures in 1860 were worth $69 million, as opposed to $388.2 for the Middle states, $223.1 million for New England, and $201.7 million for the West. Moreover, Southern industries included such enterprises as cigar-making and the processing of chewing tobacco, which would not be very useful in making war on the Yankees. In 1860 the Southern states produced 76,000 tons of iron ore, compared to the 2.5 million tons extracted north of Mason and Dixon's Line. And in the same year Southern iron mills processed less than one-sixteenth of the 400,000 tons of iron rolled in the United States. At birth the Confederate South lacked not only an industrial base, but also the skills, raw materials, and transportation to establish war industries.

Southern capital had long been invested in land and slaves, singularly unliquid asserts. The land and slaves produced-they produced raw staples which were useless in the raw and which as a general rule were refined outside the South. On the eve of war Southern soil grew an estimated four-fifths of the world's supply of cotton. Yet Southern cotton mills were valued in 1860 at about one-tenth of the total valuation of cotton mills in the United States. And armies could neither wear nor shoot cotton bales. Southern farmers raised cattle, but Southern leather products in 1860 were worth $4 million as opposed to $59 million in the rest of the country. Southern farmers raised hemp, but the Confederacy suffered from a severe shortage of rope. There were some sheep in the upper South in 1860, but Southerners had invested $1.3 million in woolen mills compared to $35 million elsewhere in the United States. From the height of hindsight, then, we can see that the Southern agrarian economy in 1861 offered little to a blockaded Southern nation about to engage in protracted, total war. To grasp the economic revolution wrought by the Confederate experience we must constantly recall the military-industrial poverty of its origins.

We must emphasize also two other constants on the liability side of the Confederate balance sheet—the economic role of the Southern army and the rampant inflation which characterized Southern fiscal policy. Both of these factors are and were obvious, but so obvious as to be often overlooked.

Of the 9 million Confederates in 1861, approximately 1,280,000 were of military age, that is, white males between fifteen and fifty years old. Eventually the Confederacy mobilized approximately 850,000 men. With this army marched the Confederacy's hopes of nationhood. Yet an army is essentially a consumer; it produces only security and in the case of the Confederacy sometimes not much of that. The Southern army consumed food, clothing, ordnance, transportation, livestock forage, and more. And of course it consumed these things at a rate much higher than an equivalent number of civilians. Still in an economic context, every Southern consumer-soldier was one less badly needed producer. And this removal of producers from the Confederate economy hurt not only the South's incipient industrial efforts, but also her agriculture.

The other chronic crisis which plagued the Confederate economy involved the spiraling inflation of the currency. On this subject Charles W. Ramsdell has concluded, "If I were asked what was the greatest single weakness of the Confederacy, I should say, without much hesitation, that it was in this matter of finances. The resort to irredeemable paper money and to excessive issues of such currency was fatal, for it weakened not only the purchasing power of the government but also destroyed economic security among the people." The Confederate government, under the guidance of Secretary of the Treasury Christopher G. Memminger, tried to finance the war effort at one time or another by loans, bonds, taxation, and confiscation. When all else failed the Confederacy unleashed the printing presses, flooded the country with fiat currency, and then tried to stay the inflationary spiral by repudiating a portion of its own currency. The effect of the government's monetary policy on Confederate Southerners was incalculable. Wages never kept pace with prices, and salaried men knew genuine privation. Military reverses after 1862 further undermined what shaky faith was left in the currency. In desperation the Treasury Department issued currency "legal tender for all debts private," not public. A government which refused to accept its own money did not exactly inspire soaring confidence. Confederate fiscal policy was characterized by some realism, some blunders, and a pervading illusion that the war would soon be over. It is tempting to scoff at such chaos. But Ramsdell himself conceded, "If you then ask me how, under the conditions which existed in April, 1861, the Confederate government could have avoided this pitfall, I can only reply that I do not know."

Alongside the external problems posed by the length of the war and the federal blockade, the hard facts of Confederate economic life were: (I) the warring South inherited a staple-crop, agrarian economy; (2) inflationary currency was inevitable for a nation trying to carry on a war with only $27 million in "hard" money; and (3) to exist the South depended upon a large armed body of consumers. These liabilities, internal and external, conditioned the economic response to what became a war of attrition. Yet that response, when compared to the antebellum status quo, constituted nothing less than an economic revolution. In contrast to the economy of the Old South, the Confederate Southern economy was characterized by the decline of agriculture, the rise of industrialism, and the rise of urbanization.” - Emory M. Thomas, ‘The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience’ (1970) [p. 79 - 82]