Back in the colonial days everyone was expected to plant hemp it was ordered by our government ,If you make a pair of jeans or a shirt from the fiber they will last for years much longer than cotton. Plus that's what rope was made from .
yes indeedy we could sure use more things made from hemp . It was a dirty trick to call it a class A narcotic . The hemp used for fiber is not able to get a person high. We could really use a crop like Hemp that doesn't require any where near the water that cotton does and you don't have to fertilize it or spray it with pesticides which both kill the soil .
The hemp plant is also very fast growing ,puts a lot of oxygen in the air ,plus it takes lots of carbon dioxide out of the air too ,it could be the answer to global warming!!!!😁
There is a lot of research and proof that Hemp and Bamboo can replace trees as sources for fiber. Hemp will grow in one season and produce more fiber per acre than trees. It can be used for every thing from paper to cloth. There is research that it even can be made into rechargeable battery's that can power electric cars. It can be made into concrete for buildings and creating wildlife habitat. The same can be said about Bamboo. There should be serious effort into growing these resources and the mass developing of products we use that can be made from them.
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I have been preaching about industrial hemp for a while. No one wants to listen. When I was quite young, before moving out west, there were a lot of families in the area of the Southeast where I was born who used a good job in a textile factory as a way out of the poorhouse. Those jobs have been outsourced overseas. They could be replaced with a hemp industry. All those farmers growing tobacco could grow hemp and it could revitalize the middle class in the Southeast, anyway. Cotton and pulpwood could be replaced by hemp. I'm not sure about bamboo, I don't think it is as versatile.
I have been preaching about industrial hemp for a while. No one wants to listen. When I was quite young, before moving out west, there were a lot of families in the area of the Southeast where I was born who used a good job in a textile factory as a way out of the poorhouse. Those jobs have been outsourced overseas. They could be replaced with a hemp industry. All those farmers growing tobacco could grow hemp and it could revitalize the middle class in the Southeast, anyway. Cotton and pulpwood could be replaced by hemp. I'm not sure about bamboo, I don't think it is as versatile.
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I'm with you Smedley. I would love to see a major industrial hemp industry flourish. It is 4 times stronger than cotton and lasts much longer. It takes half as much water to grow it and get this cotton uses 25% of the worlds pesticides to grow it where hemp uses hardly any .
There is a lot of research and proof that Hemp and Bamboo can replace trees as sources for fiber. Hemp will grow in one season and produce more fiber per acre than trees. It can be used for every thing from paper to cloth. There is research that it even can be made into rechargeable battery's that can power electric cars. It can be made into concrete for buildings and creating wildlife habitat. The same can be said about Bamboo. There should be serious effort into growing these resources and the mass developing of products we use that can be made from them.
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I remember hearing of this years ago about hemp. Why the resistance to using it I wonder.
I remember hearing of this years ago about hemp. Why the resistance to using it I wonder.
Democratic Government Control. Need I say More. If I'm not mistaken trump made it so that farmers could plant Hemp. I think that you have to secure a permit. I will do some research on this.
I'm with you Smedley. I would love to see a major industrial hemp industry flourish. It is 4 times stronger than cotton and lasts much longer. It takes half as much water to grow it and get this cotton uses 25% of the worlds pesticides to grow it where hemp uses hardly any .
And it is...I can't think of a bad enough word to describe the intentional misinformation pumped out about hemp in order to criminalize it. The opportunities/prosperity denied...it's shameful. I do hope it can be rectified soon.
And it is...I can't think of a bad enough word to describe the intentional misinformation pumped out about hemp in order to criminalize it. The opportunities/prosperity denied...it's shameful. I do hope it can be rectified soon.
I hope so too. I would love to see hempcrete put into common use and paper made from hemp could preserve a great deal of forest. I don't think any source of fiber should be non utilized that along with any and all sources of energy but that is another subject .