Industrial HEMP can help save our economy

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Obviously, numerous benefits could be derived from legalizing the crop and allowing it to be cultivated all over the world. However, people have been conditioned to view the herb as a negative addition to society. Such is largely a result of big business and political propaganda which began in 1915. Drug Warrant relays that even though the Declaration of Independence was printed on hemp paper and the crop was mandated to be grown in the U.S. in 1619, only in the last hundred years or so have people been demonizing the plant.

Perhaps if people knew the many ways hemp and marijuana, which are closely related but are not the same, can be used, their opinions on legalizing the crop would change. Considering that marijuana results in 0 annual deaths while pharmaceutical drugs are responsible for over 100,000, keeping an open mind is the least people could do.

OP is right on! Hemp's uses are astounding. We can make clothing outta it and use it for paper. I used to operate a Particle Board mill and when I left there where companies using it instead of wood. It was a stronger fiber and needed less glue which decreases emissions. Hemp can be an almost magical commodity if it can be mass produced!

Anything that can be made of plastic or petroleum can be made of hemp. Henry Ford even made bumpers and fenders for some of his early cars out of hemp.

It is used in many countries for a multitude of products. It is banned for us, though. Too many corporations don't want the competition.

Some states are reconsidering this. KY is experimenting with growing it at several college ag depts.
Other states are looking in to it.

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Following are 9 benefits of hemp you won’t learn about from mainstream media:

1) Fuel

Similar to plants like corn, cannabis can be used to develop biofuels to power automobiles, generators, and pretty much anything else one can imagine. In fact, the University of Connecticut has been studying whether or not the fuel is actually viable, and the results are confirming that it is is.

One of the major problems with current biofuel production, according to Cheat Sheet, is that it often takes more energy to create than what it’s worth. Cannabis may be able to change that.

And, thanks to the growing interest in the cultivating the crop, developing a cannabis biofuel industry is speculated to be an easy task.

Professor Richard Parnas of the University of Connecticut says:

If someone is already growing hemp, they might be able to produce enough fuel to power their whole farm with the oil from the seeds they produce. The fact that a hemp industry already exists means that a hemp biodiesel industry would need little additional investment.

2) Batteries

According to AlterNet, cannabis could help improve the way we store energy. Researchers are discovering that cannabis may assist the process of producing more efficient supercapacitors. Basically, nanosheets can be made by hemp fibers in the same way scientists have been able to use graphene in the past. An added bonus is that hemp is more economical, as it can cost thousands of times less than graphene or similar materials.

As it becomes more socially acceptable to work with hemp, engineers and scientists will have more freedom to develop other innovations with the material.


3) Building Materials

You may not know this, but hemp can be used to create various kinds of building materials. In fact, it’s likely that in the future, houses and even business structures will be comprised of hemp.

Not only can hemp be made into insulation, it can also be used to create engineered building products like fiberboard and pressboard. In addition, it can even be used to make ‘hempcrete’, which is a stronger, lighter, and more environmentally friendly version of concrete.

4) Livestock Feed

Livestock is often fed corn-based feeds, but cannabis-based options could soon become the norm. The change would not only reduce costs, it would spare more food for people who need it.

In addition, feeds with cannabis would cut down on transportation needs, as the crop grows practically anywhere.


5) Plastic Production

In the early 1940s, Henry Ford (below) produced a prototype car made out of hemp & soy plastic. Though it never went into production due to the influence from chemical giant DuPont, the photo of Ford trying to ax his way through the car proved hemp plastic’s durability. (see photo in link)

Now, it’s well-known that hemp plastic would be a suitable alternative for consumers as it is more easily recycled and degrades at a faster rate than traditional plastic.

Everyday items like soda bottles, CD & DVD cases, shower curtain liners, and even food packaging could be easily switched to hemp-based plastics.

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Cancer? Try seed oil, burns for months. Most efficient fuel on Earth.

6) Food & Beverages

Hemp seeds are touted as a ‘super food’ because one-third of hemp seed’s weight comes from hemp oil, which is both edible and highly nutritious. The food source contains essential fatty acids (more omega-3’s than walnuts) which lower inflammation, and the whole seed is about 25% protein. It’s also a great source of calcium and iron.

One can use hemp seeds in desserts, by sprinkling them on salads, or by making homemade hemp milk (just substitute for almonds).


7) Nuclear Waste Cleanup

One of the most intriguing uses for hemp is how it can assist in cleaning up soil contamination. In the early 1990s, the crop was planted at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine to assess its abilities to heal the soil. Reportedly, the plant shows great potential in cleaning up land contaminated with coal fly ash, sewage sludge, or heavy metals due to its fast rate of growth and ability to remove contaminants from the soil.


Note: Sunflowers and a few other plants also help with cleaning the soil

8) Paper

2,000 years ago, hemp paper was commonly utilized. This is astounding, considering that only 0.05% of world paper production today is made from the crop.

Being a far more sustainable source of pulp than paper, hemp would lend great benefits to the environment if humanity relied on this crop rather than trees.


9) Clothing

Hemp was first woven into fabric between 7,000 and 8,000 B.C. but is rarely used nowadays. Perhaps that’s because hemp clothing has earned the reputation of being rough and tough.

Thanks to modern methods of working with the crop, however, even the high fashion industry is playing with hemp, merging it with silk for lingerie. Of course, its durability could be applied to more obvious applications, such as sportswear and outdoor clothing.

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Love my hemp clothing. The material is perfect, soft and very durable. Warm when it's cold and cool when it's warm! There are a lot of small businesses that sell hemp clothing. Find them online.






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OP is right !!!
We eat hemp seeds all the time. They are very nutritious, and tasty. Get rid of all the old fashion thinkers.

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A very important point: "...hemp and marijuana, which are closely related but are not the same..," yet have been conflated from the beginning of cannabis prohibition by unscrupulous American oligarchs to eliminate this valuable resource (hemp) from competition against their investments.

Hemp contains almost no THC, the "buzz factor" in marijuana. It is useless as a recreational drug.

There a plethora of examples where cannabis oil has been used successfully in treating several types of cancer and other illnesses. This is not a myth nor is it conjecture, it is FACT. The only ones to profit from the criminalizing of cannabis is Big Pharma as it makes it possible for the individual to grow life saving medicine at home thereby negating the need for ultra expensive chemical "cures"(which really aren't )

YOU are right

A good rant from comments section:


there is many uses of hemp for everyone and they are all good, but the powers that be do not want you to have your rights, and a better quality of life, they do not want you to live a healthier longer life, BECAUSE OUR WORLD IS RUN BY THESE ELITE MASONIC REPTILIAN OVERLORDS, they believe they have the divine right to rule over us, they will have the best medicine's and the best food, and any breakthrough into the aging desease that will give you a longer life without deteriation, you will not have it or see it, these are the creature's upon the earth who only want to see you suffer because it is their Narcotic, they love nothing only their own power, they will never have what we have spirituality, they only want to eat your soul. but we are many and they are few, the time is near for us to take back our rights.

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I don't think it's necessarily "old fashioned thinking" - I think it's "old fashioned greed". If people could grow this and do their own thing with it, it might cut into the bottom line of several corporations, and we can't have that now, can we? Unless THEY decide that they are going to use it and make money off of it, it will still be illegal and demonized.

DAMN THEM !!!!

President Trump could do this....

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Forget a Trump tower, he could build a Hemp tower, literally.

I wonder what his views on legalization are.

Trump will do it

Hemp for Victory 2.

Hemp farms for Veterans. Simple Solution.

it will happen when the next generation takes over.

"It is a mold, rot, pest and fire resistent, carbon negative building material."

Good idea. I am a 33yo non veteran man. But I would work on one of those!