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 grown for thousands of years. Currently the hemp plant is defined as a drug and deemed illegal through the Controlled Substance 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 mankind’s first cultivated plants. As a society we could eliminate smog from current fuels, create a cleaner energy source that could replace nuclear power, remove radioactive waste from the soil, and eliminate smog from our skies in more industrialized areas. The hemp plant could assist in eliminating non-biodegradable plastics and cars by re-introducing Henry Ford’s 100 year old dream of building cars from hemp. These could be made from a plastic hemp that can with stand a blow 10 times as great as 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 vegetable oil based all natural hemp fuel, and would have a completely biodegradable body.
Nationwide hemp production could eliminate deforestation by converting current paper to hemp paper. Hem paper can be recycled up to 8 times where as our current wood pulp is only recyclable up to 3 times. We could thrive from eating hemp seeds and feeding it to our animals and livestock.
Studies have shown that hemp’s biomass can be converted into energy and replace our current fossil fuels. Just by farming 6% of the United States farmland could this be achieved. Hemp grown in biomass could fuel a trillion dollar-per-year industry. This would create more jobs, clean our air and distribute wealth to our communities and away from centralized power monopolies. Hemp’s biomass can be converted into gasoline, methanol, and methane at a fraction of the current cost of oil, coal or nuclear energy. When burned in a diesel engine, bio-diesel replaces the exhaust odor of petroleum with a smell something akin to french-fries. Bio-diesel is 11% oxygen by weight and contains no sulfur. So instead of creating sulfur-based smog and acid rain as by-products, it produces 11% oxygen instead.
The hemp grown through government farming and regulation is called “Industrial Hemp” and contains no more than 0.03 percent THC content, maximum allowed. Canada, China and England are examples of countries who have never prohibited, but have responsibly grown, produced and thrived off of industrial hemp.
Despite industrial hemp having some 50,000 uses, the likes of the Duponts, Rockefellers, Hearsts, Mellons and their constituents cornered the industrial and medicinal market with political propaganda. All four of these very wealthy families worked together to aid in the criminalization of hemp for their own personal and financial gains.
We urge you to continue to seek the facts about the hemp plant and its benefits so you will be able to pass it on to others.
Source by Sammie Lee
