the hemp plant
This versatile plant has been used to make some 50,000 items ranging from clothing to dietary supplements. The plant is highly sustainable and has been cultivated for thousands of years. Currently, the hemp plant is defined as a drug and considered illegal through the Controlled Substances Act despite the scientific fact that there is no part of the hemp plant that can be used as a drug.
The hemp plant was one of the first plants cultivated by mankind. As a society, we could remove smog from current fuels, create a cleaner energy source that could replace nuclear power, remove radioactive waste from the ground, and remove smog from our skies in more industrialized areas. The hemp plant could help eliminate non-biodegradable plastics and cars by reintroducing Henry Ford’s 100-year dream of building cars with hemp. These could be made from a plastic hemp that can take a hit 10 times bigger than steel without denting. It would weigh thousands of pounds less than steel and have better gas mileage. The car would be capable of running on a natural hemp-based vegetable oil fuel and would have a fully biodegradable body.
Nationwide hemp production could eliminate deforestation by converting current paper to hemp paper. Hemmed paper can be recycled up to 8 times, while our current wood pulp can only be recycled up to 3 times. We could prosper by eating hemp seeds and feeding them to our animals and livestock.
Studies have shown that biomass from hemp can be converted into energy and replace our current fossil fuels. Just farming 6% of US farmland could do this. Biomass-grown hemp could power a trillion-dollar-a-year industry. This would create more jobs, clean our air and distribute wealth to our communities and move them away from centralized monopolies of power. Hemp biomass can be converted to gasoline, methanol, and methane at a fraction of the current cost of oil, coal, or nuclear power. When burned in a diesel engine, biodiesel replaces the smell of petroleum exhaust with a smell similar to that of potato chips. Biodiesel is 11% oxygen by weight and contains no sulfur. So instead of creating sulfur-based smog and acid rain as byproducts, it produces 11% oxygen.
Hemp grown through agriculture and government regulation is called “industrial hemp” and contains no more than 0.03 percent THC content, the maximum allowed. Canada, China, and England are examples of countries that have never banned, but have responsibly grown, produced, and prospered from industrial hemp.
Despite the fact that industrial hemp has some 50,000 uses, the Duponts, Rockefellers, Hearsts, Mellons and their constituents cornered the industrial and medicinal market with political propaganda. The four very wealthy families worked together to help criminalize hemp for their own personal and financial gain.
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