1. Hemp
Imagine a single cash crop that makes better paper than trees, better cloth than cotton, provides medicine for many common illnesses, and can be made into virtually anything from hamburgers to asphalt. All of these wonderful qualities lie in the demonized Cannabis plant, the source of the illegal drug, marijuana. Fear and ignorance about this plant have caused cultivation of all forms of it to be illegalized in the United States; even varieties that are grown exclusively for industrial uses like making clothing, which even the flowering tops of, have no psychoactive use whatsoever. The Cannabis plant is not the brain-killing addictive drug we have all grown up being told of, but instead is a life saver. With more complete and accurate education about this plant, the United States public would feel more secure with domestically farming and manufacturing hemp and legally providing marijuana-based drugs to patients who's life depends one it. This high-yield cash crop would prove a stabilizing force in the U.S. economy, just as it once had in the colonial times.
The American hemp plant, Cannabis Sativa, which has been bred to have only trace amounts of the psychoactive chemical THC, is amazingly effective as an alternative source of fiber for cloth and paper products. Industrial use of the hemp plant has shaped the progress of humanity, composing the earliest discovered woven cloth, the first book ever written, the sails that brought Christopher Columbus to the Americas, the paper on which the declaration of independence was drafted, and the original material of Levi Jeans (Edwards). Since the earliest colonization of America, hemp has been the main source for cloth, rope, and paper, and was grown by many important leaders such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. In a note to Mt. Vernon's gardener in 1794, George Washington wrote "Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere.
The miraculous plant is also known as hemp. ... Hemp was widely used during the 18th century that it was considered the age of hemp. Hemp prospered until in 1937, Popular Mechanics named hemp to be the new billion-dollar crop. ... Because hemp and marijuana share the same name, cannabis sativa, hemp fell under the new strict law. ... Hemp is also low maintenance. ...
But there is a vast growing market for hemp, "hemp crops could indeed be profitable for farmers because hemp is a multipurpose crop" (West). ... Industrial hemp is a very prolific plant. ... Hemp is also a very low maintenance crop. ... Some colonies even found it so "valuable they passed legal tender laws so that hemp could be used to pay taxes"(Hemp). ... Industrial hemp is not marijuana though. ...
Hemp is the sister plant of marijuana, also called cannabis sativa. ... Not only does hemp keep people nutritious, but the byproduct of pressing the oil from hemp seed is high quality protein seed cake. ... 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. ... Hemp stems are 80% hurds (pulp by-product after the hemp fiber is removed from the plant). ...
HEMP Most Americans choose to remain ignorant concerning the many economical advantages of Hemp and what it can provide. ... Now to focus on the wide range of what hemp can do for us. ... Compared to recycled tree paper that can only be "recycled" 3 times, Hemp paper can be recycled up to 8 times. ... Therefore, trees are cut to make most recycled paper, whereas recycled hemp paper comes from 100% recycled fiber. ... These are but a few advantages that Hemp could provide if American society was willing to look past its judgment. ...
Hemp can also be used in many other materials such as hemp ink, shakes, burgers, cheese, and even hemp breakfast cereals. ... The main difference between hemp and marijuana is that hemp is useful to us; some people realize that and others have not. ... Hemp was the first cultivated fiber plant. ... We also have hemp in our own history. ... During this time hemp was as good as money, during the American Revolution Robert Carter was a major producer of hemp. ...
Hemp can save the world Industrial hemp is perhaps the world's most versatile fiber, it can be used to make almost anything. ... The first people to cultivate and use hemp were the Chinese. ... Hemp encouraged early recycling efforts, workers would collect old hemp clothing and ropes, then use the fibers to make paper. ... Even our founding fathers advocated the growth of hemp. ... It is virtually impossible to get high from smoking hemp. ...
The Farmers High Hemp is not pot and does not represent hippies and free love. ... "By definition hemp is an annual plant belonging to the Nettle family. ... Hemp fiberboard is twice as strong as wood based fiberboard. ... With all the known products hemp can be manufactured into and the ease of which it can be grown, hemp is simply the best choice for farmers in a dwindling farming community. ... Instead of the U.S importing hemp products we could now meet our own supply and demands resulting in lower prices for to the U.S. consumers for all of the many products made from hemp....
Hemp has been used to make ropes, fishing net, and paper. ... In the 6TH century oil was extracted form the hemp plant too. ... Hemp, on the ether hand contains only 0.1 to 0.4 percent THC, and that is not enough to mane anyone highto day merchandise such a clothes, jewelry, backpske, skatebosrds, snide snack food re made from hemp. ... George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were hemp farmers. If people could be educated about the difference between marijuana and inustria hemp. ...