Hemp seeds were the world's number one wild and domestic birdseed until the 1937 marijuana prohibition law (Herer Chp.8). Four million pounds of hemp seed for songbirds were sold at the retail in the U.S. in 1937 (Herer Chp.8). Birds favored the hemp seeds because when they were in mixed piles of seeds they would specifically pick out hemp seeds. According to the facts about the oils in the hemp seeds, birds would most likely live longer using hemp seeds in their diet for their feathers and overall diet. .
Another very important use of hemp would be the use of fibers for clothes, paper, or wood. Hemp is the oldest cultivated fiber plant in the world, which means its never going to go away. Cannabis sativa is the only known plant that can be grown from the Equator to the Arctic Circle and to the Antarctic Circle; from the mountains to the valleys, from the oceans to the plains, including arid lands and everywhere in between (The Hemp Industries Association (HIA)). So, this plant will never die because of its versatility to the earth's environment. Its paper use could help preserve tree life because one acre of hemp can produce as much usable fiber as 4 acres of trees or two acres of cotton. While this acre can take as little as 100 days to grow, the trees used to cut down paper take many years to grow. In 1883, 75-90% of all paper in the world was made with cannabis hemp fiber including that for books, Bibles, maps, paper money, stocks and bonds, newspapers, etc (FHIA 1). Today, there are many activists that are distraught because of the use of trees for all the paper that is wasted. Some tree activists complain about the use of wood in classrooms, however hemp particleboard may be up to 2 times stronger than wood particleboard and holds nails better. Fibers are an essential need in our environment to cloth people and produce mass amounts of paper. .
A very large problem in our society today is the lack of fuel for the future.
