Why Hemp Prduction Should Be Legal in the Us

On of your local grocery stores should carry Hemp Granola. They might even carry other Hemp items. The imported products are extremely popular. Americas inability to produce their own products. Forces local consumers to buy forienge items. Creating a profitable agricultural industry. Will help the local and national economy. It will also create thousands of American jobs. These improvements would decrease our need to import. From other countries and eliminate the need to import Hemp.

Do any of you know the difference between industrial hemp and marijuana? Would you like to? The purpose of this speech is to explain the differences in marijuana and industrial hemp, and to show the need to reform the present hemp laws in the United States in order to make hemp available for industrial purposes. The hemp plant shows its unique versatility by having many uses in industry and hemp has many distinct benefits over its counterpart in industry today. The usage of hemp would result in cleaner and more efficient industry. I will first discuss the differences between hemp and marijuana to avoid confusion, and then state the many ways that industrial hemp can help our economy such as; the use for fiber, the use in foods, and

My step dad had a pair of hemp jeans in high school. They lasted him over 10 years, until he got too big to fit them anymore. He gave them to a friend who still wears those pants made of hemp. Cotton is much more difficult to grow than hemp because cotton is addicted to chemical elixirs. It requires a lot of artificial fertilizers, insecticides, and herbicides for it to be able to grow well. When cotton is ripe, the leaves have to be knocked off with defoliants before the bolls can be harvested. Hemp is by far a much better alternative to grow. It does not require any herbicides and it actually cleanses the land instead of depleting it of nutrients. Making paper from hemp is far more economical and environmentally friendly than making paper from trees. Wood-based paper pulp is brown from the cooking process thus requiring it to be bleached which releases toxins into the environment. Hemp paper is naturally bright with no bleaching necessary. The nation could reduce unsustainable logging if American farmers were allowed to grow hemp which produces twice as much fiber per acre as an average forest. Hemp is a clean, renewable option that can replace virtually all products made with non-renewable hydrocarbons like oil and coal (Williams).

Many knowledgeable people who know and understand the potential of industrial hemp are convinced that it is one of the world's most perfect products. Its fiber makes rope and cloth which is very strong and resilient and when used to make paper products, the production is far tidier and much more efficient than using wood to make paper. Hemp is indeed considered one of the world's oldest agricultural products and hemp has a history in the United States that includes the fact that the Declaration of Independence and the original St. James Bible are actually printed on hemp paper. The list of practical uses is lengthy and impressive, but due to drug laws in the United States the growing of cannabis for industrial hemp uses is illegal; this has been a source of considerable controversy in the United States. The uses of industrial hemp and the debate as to whether industrial hemp farming should be allowed in the U.S. will be reviewed and critiqued in this paper.

Hemp used to be, and can be again, a useful resource for america. It was used to make sails, rope, paper, and clothes. Since marijuana grows faster than trees, would it not be smarter to make paper out of hemp rather than cutting down entire forests. In St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture it is stated that “Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson advocated a hemp-based economy.” (Tony Brewer. Page 459) If important people like our past presidents prefered a hemp-based economy it would not be

Even though it has a few governmental issues, I think people over look how hemp is the most “safe” fiber for the environment. One huge factor that the public is not informed about regarding hemp is that only half the water used to make cotton is used to make hemp. This saves the environment tremendously, because the last thing the earth needs is a lack of more water. Another huge factor when discussing the debate between cotton and hemp, is that hemp produces a huge significant amount more per land area than cotton does. This could be huge for our economy. We would be able to use way less land to make the exact same products, just in a different material. Cutting down land usage for farming would be so healthy for the environment that maybe the earth could start to be revived to the way it once

This paper written by Ernest Small and David Marcus covers the history of Hemp (hemp is the actual marijuana plant itself) and everything its used for. They start out covering the history stating when it was first used as a textile “somewhere between 1000 and 2000 BCE”. Next they list everything hemp can be used for. They really hammer on its uses as a fiber and in textiles as they claim “hemp is a bast fiber, i.e. the most desirable”. Another big topic the cover is hemps ability to replace wood as the leading material for paper. They state how using hemp would be more beneficial because “hemp’s long fibers could make paper more recyclable” and “hemp paper is useful for specialty applications such as currency and cigarette papers where strength

With this, I also learned that in 1619, Virginia colonies required farmers to grow it. This was information that I had no idea about and I was really fascinated when I learned this. Some other interesting things that I learned was that there was a period of time where people were completely against the use of Marjiuana and even published a film called “Reefer Madness”. The film basically showed the supposed effects of Marjiuana and did it in a ridiculous way by portraying the effects of it as being very deadly, such as suicide. Scenes such as jumping out of a window were illustrated as a effect of the drug and caused a lot of controversy over the use of this plant and I had no idea about the film. I’ve learned so many new on the topic of weed that I have never known of before and what I found most interesting is how so many people are against the use of the drug when they do not even know the benefits there are to its use. Something fascinating I learned was that the use of Hemp can actually be an environmental benefit to the world and can help us as a source of energy. Help fibers can also be used as construction materials for items such as fiberglass, plastics, and materials that are

Marijuana is the name for several breeds of the Cannibus sativa l. plants. This plant most commonly seen on the evening news, the drug is Delta-9-tetrahydocannabinol (THC) and I refer to the plant as "Mary Jane". Typically Mary Jane is extremely short, produces very poor fibers, and has high THC concentration in its buds. Hemp plants, Mary Jane's brothers, are distinguished by towering over thirteen feet high, poor production of THC, and exceptionally strong fibers. Hemp is a largely ignored plant because of the bad rap that its sister gets as a vice, generated by energy, legal and illegal drug, and paper industries; all of these industries are threatened by the industrialization of marijuana. I ask you to now read on to what I have to say

Even our flags were from cannabis fibers. Best of all they come pesticide free! 75-90% of all paper in the world was made with cannabis hemp fiber including paper for books, Bibles, maps, paper money, stocks & bonds, newspaper, etc. Hemp paper lasted 50 to 100 times longer.” (DigitalHemp)

Another fact that is unknown to many people is that there are different types of cannabis plants. Each is grown for a different use. Julian Gairdner notes, “Three different types of hemp exist: the illegal one high TCH (marijuana), the conventional long-stemmed ‘fibre’ varieties, and varieties grown principally for their seed, such as Finola bred in Finland and now being multiplied on 275ha in the UK on seed contracts with Springdale (“Heaps Of Hemp Potential”). All three types of hemp are low maintenance, with no weeding and very little water needed. A small field of hemp comes with the possibility of high yield. Every part of the hemp plant can be used. Springdale’s Clifford Spencer stated, “It’s one enormous chemistry factory on roots—oils, meal, anti-microbialproducts, medical uses, industrial uses. We can strip everything

In Canada, growing industrial hemp was legalized in 1998. Eighteen years later, producers still face many challenges. Farmers first have to get a license from the government to grow hemp. Then they can only plant the seeds of specific cultivars, or types, of hemp. These specific cultivars have been approved by the Canadian government because they contain minimal amounts of THC. (THC is the psychoactive component found in marijuana.) Finally, farmers in eastern Canada face an additional challenge because very little is known about how to grow hemp in eastern Canada.

More importantly, hemp has some of the most useful sustainable material nature has to offer. It is evident that humanity is living in an unsustainable fashion; the earth’s resources are being depleted at a rate at which it cannot be replenished. Still, some of these products (paper, plastic, fuel, building material, etc.) are essential for modern day living and, therefore, practices and processes continue as they are. That is why it is so crucial to explore alternative products to promote a more sustainable world. Hemp has the ability to maintain ecological processes, functions, and biodiversity in the future, which current processes cannot manage.

People have been using hemp to make textiles for thousand of year. Hemp was used in clothing, rope, and even in the sails of the first ships to sailed across the Atlantic ocean. This is probably because hemp fibers are stronger than cotton fibers, so thay do not deteriorate as quickly as cotton does. Like cotton hemp fibers soften after washing but they remain strong

The research will be conducted with the use of database engines and scholarly articles to seek out information on hemp, its history, uses, and future viability. Research on the current state of the paper and pulp industry will also be presented to try and find differences or similarities that could be telling of the viability of hemp as a prominent paper resource.