Hemp: The Truth About The Earth's Greatest Plant
Hemp: The Truth About the Earth's Greatest Plant
In a perfect world there would be a product that could serve as a fuel
source, a food source, a paper source, a textile source, and this product would
be easy to produce in any of its forms. Believe it or not such a product does
exist; it is the plant known as hemp. No tree or plant species on earth has the
commercial, economic, and environmental potential of hemp. Over 30,000 known
products can be manufactured from hemp.
Hemp was a common crop grown in the U.S. until 1937 when it was unjustly
banned. A common misconception about hemp is that it was banned because it was a
widely abused, harmful drug. Hemp was banned because it was a competitive threat
to the wood industry. Corporations that profited from the demise of hemp spread
rumors that marijuana was a major drug problem, which it was not at the time.
They also propagated a campaign that it was a drug that induced uncontrollable
violence, another complete falsehood.
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