World's Most Beneficial Natural Resource?

Hemp is a beneficial resource, every culture in the world

could benefit from all that you get out of this natural plant.

Why the government has waged war on a plant that

has over 25,000 positive uses is just plain stupidity.

Trying to stop a plant, could go toward better schools, tax breaks for the

other people, not just the rich. Just imagine how much our economy

would flourish, the planet would flourish.

Here is a list of FACTS about what this "threat" would do for us.

1. On an annual basis, 1 acre of hemp will produce as much cotton as 2 to 3 acres of cotton. Hemp fibes is stronger and softer than cotton, lasts twice as long as cotton and will not mildew. Many textile products ( pants, shirts, jackets, back packs etc.) made from 100% hemp are now available.

2. Cotton grows only in moderate climates and requires more water than hemp, hemp is frost tolerant, requires only moderate amounts of water and grows in all 50 states. Cotton requires large quantities of pesticides and herbicides-- 50% of the world's pesticides/herbicides are used on cotton. Hemp requires no pesticides/herbicides and only moderate amounts of fertilizer.

3. On an annual basis, 1 acre of hemp will produce as much paper as 2 to 4 acres of trees. From tissue paper to cardboard. All kinds of paper products can be produced from hemp. Global demand for paper will double in 25 years, unless tree-free sources of paper are developed, there is no way to meet future demand without causing massive deforestation and enviromental damage. Hemp is the world's most promising source of tree-free paper.

4. The quality of hemp paper is superior to tree based paper. Hemp paper will last hundreds of years without degrading, can be recycled many more times than tree based paper, and requires less toxic chemicals in the manufacturing process than does paper made from trees.

5. Hemp can be used to produce fiberboard that is stronger than wood, lighter than wood, and fire retardent. Substituting hemp fiberboard for timber would further reduce the need to cut down our forests.Hemp can also be used to produce strong, durable and enviromentally-friendly plastic substitutes. Thousands of products made from petroleum based plastics can be produced for hemp based composites. Mercedes Benz of Germany has recently begun manufacturing automobile bodies and dashboards from hemp.

6.It takes years for trees to grow to be harvested for paper or wood, but hemp is ready only 120 days after it has been planted. Hemp can grow on most land suitable for farming, but forests and trees farms take long tracts of land available in a few locations. Harvesting hemp rather than trees would also eliminate erosion due to logging, thereby reducing top soil loss and water pollution caused by soil runoff.

7. Hemp seeds contain a protein that is more nutritional and economical to produce than soybean protein. Hemp seeds are not intoxicating. Hemp seed protein can be used to produce any product mode from sotbean: tofu, veggie burge, butter ,milk, cheese, salad oil, ice cream, milk etc. Hemp seed can also be ground into a nutritious flour that can be used to produce baking products such as pasta, cookies, and breads.

8. Hemp seed oil can be used to make non-toxic diesel fuel, paint, varnish, detergent, ink, and lubricating oil. Because hemp seeds account for up to half the weight of a mature hemp plant, hemp seed is a viable source for these products.

9.Just as corn can be converted into clean burning ethanol fuel, so can hemp. Because hemp produces more bio-mass than any other plant species (including corn) that can be grown in a wide range of climates and locations, hemp has a potential to become a major source of ethanol fuel.

10. Literally millions of wild hemp plants currently grow across the U.S. Wild hemp, like hemp grown for industrial use, has no drug properties because of its low THC content. U.S. marijuana laws prevent farmers from growing the same hemp plant that proliferates in nature by the millions.

11. From 1776 to 1937, hemp was a major American crop and textiles made from hemp were common. Yet, the American Textile Museum, The Smithsonian Institute and most American history books contain no history of hemp. The government's War on Marijuana Smokers has created an atmosphere of censorship-- speaking of hemp in a positive matter is considered taboo.

12. United States Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp, used products made from hemp and praised the hemp plant in some of their writings. Under the laws written under todays politicians George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would be considered a threat to society-- they would have been arrested and thrown in prison for the felony crime of growing plants.

13. No other natural resouce offers the potential of hemp. Cannabis Heemp is capable of producing significant quantities of paper, textiles, building materials, food, medicine, paint, detergent, varnish, oil, ink, and fuel. Unlike other crops, hemp can grow in most climates and most farmland throughout the world with moderate water an fertilizer requirements, no pesticides and no herbicides. Cannabis Hemp (also known as Indian Hemp ) has enormous potential to become a major natural resource that can benefit both the economy and the enviroment.

"Make the most you can of the Indian hemp seed and sow it everywhere".

President George Washington, 1774.