The solution to the global economic disaster, page 1
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Topic started on 2-12-2008 @ 09:08 AM by warrenb
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HEMP



Hemp is one of the most useful plants on Earth.

For thousands of years, humans have used parts of the hemp plant for food, textiles, paper, fabric, and fuel oil. Today, modern processing technologies have made it possible to create alternatives to gasoline, plastic, and other petroleum products that can help the human race lessen its reliance on polluting and expensive fossil fuels.

The hemp plant is a renewable resource that can be produced domestically. It grows quickly, naturally resists plant diseases, requires little weeding, thrives in most climates, and enriches the soil it grows in.

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Here are some of its most important applications:

  • Food and Nutrition
  • Body Care
  • Paper
  • Fabric, Textiles, and Rope
  • Fuel
  • Plastic Alternatives
  • Building Materials
  • and more


An acre of hemp will produce from four to ten times as much paper pulp as will an acre of trees, over the period of time it takes pulp trees to grow to maturity, and hemp can be used to make paper more durable and environmentally friendly than wood. Changing to hemp-based paper could reduce deforestation by half. Hemp paper lasts hundreds of years longer than paper made from trees and doesn't require toxic bleaching chemicals.

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Overnight we could change the world for the better if industrial hemp was adopted globally.


reply posted on 2-12-2008 @ 05:58 PM by pluckynoonez
reply to post by warrenb


Amazing. A couple of months back some friends and I were supposed to go camping but COLORADO made it tricky, so we sat in an apartment in WESTMINSTER and drank and played cards and smoked. We laughed, and laughed...putting fourth our policy position on HEMP and how to run the country.

I read 1 acre of industrial hemp replaces 4 acres of forest. What an incredible plant. Unfortunately, the THC is what scares TPTB. It causes you to not go camping and speak wildly about how HEMP should be a breakfast cereal....

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