Is Hemp a Miracle Plant That Can Save the World?

Is Hemp a Miracle Plant That Can Save the World?

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Jeffrey Green
Activist Post

Hemp is perhaps the answer to most problems in the world. Ambitious, yes. An exaggeration, no.

If grown extensively, its diverse uses can be of significant value to
the environment, the economy, world hunger, personal health, and so much
more.

For the environment, hemp can reduce deforestation, pesticide use,
provide a sustainable biofuel, and replace GMO cotton among other
benefits. It grows like a weed without the need for pesticides or heavy
fertilizers.

Hemp does just about anything wood can do and it only takes 6 months to
renew, not 20 years. It can be used to make paper, to build homes with,
and as fuel for fire.

Hemp clothing is far more durable than cotton, which is an industry
still operating a form of slavery from cultivation to production. GMO
cotton has led to indentured servitude for Indian farmers where failed
crops and debt result in shockingly high suicide rates. Hemp is simply a
better material for clothing.

The oil in the hemp seed can be made into biodiesel
just like any vegetable oil. Most arguments against biofuels are that
their crops take up too much valuable farm land that should be used for
food, and it takes more energy than it gives back when all things are
considered (fertilizer, pesticides, planting and harvesting machinery,
refining).


With hemp, biofuel is merely a bi-product of this crop, not it's main
use. The fiber of the plant is still an extremely valuable commodity.
Whereas corn ethanol needs a lot of land with tons of intensive
chemicals, and the process of turning corn into ethanol is then a net
energy loss.

As today's economy falters due to a variety of systematic problems, the
world is in desperate need of a new industry. Worldwide hemp
legalization and promotion would lead to a revolution in nearly all
major industries. Entrepreneurs would have a field day with textiles,
plastics, body care, construction, etc.

Industrial
hemp's female counterpart, marijuana, provides effective natural
medicine for a number of ailments. Cannabis is one of mankind's oldest
recorded healing plants. As its prohibition lessens, modern man is only
just beginning to discover the exciting medical uses of marijuana, which
are provably vast already.

Cannabis can ease pain, depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, PTSD,
arthritis, and has even been proven to have anti-cancerous properties.
When eaten or vaporized, cannabis is entirely beneficial as a natural
alternative because any unwanted tars are not inhaled. Furthermore, juicing raw cannabis has many benefits and zero psychoactive effects.

Hemp alone is powerful enough to be a game changer for the environment
and for human society as a whole. It's time to unleash the hemp seed.

Source:-
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/04/is-hemp-miracle-plant-that-can-save.html