Is Hemp a Miracle Plant That Can Save the World?
By Jeffrey Green
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.
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Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2013/07/is-hemp-miracle-plant-that-can-save.html
Why do people, governments, dumb ass crackers, ect.. question the validity of nature/enter your Gods name here) about this most wondrous plant? Is it by chance or mistake that nature/ (enter name of your God here) provides a nearly perfect solution to many of man’s needs? NO! It is by design just like purely mathematical design of the living, conscious universe we call home. Embrace this plant, use it for its natures most genius plant. Live long and prosper
Yeah well my middle name may be Saltine but in general I agree with your point of view. So, this is a decent analogy. Marijuana is to our medical industry what free energy would be to our global oil and energy industries. It can treat just about everything more effectively than modern drugs and without side effects or risk of overpowering addiction nothing is completely non addictive but many medicines are extremely addictive Marijuana is not. It also has the side effect of inducing a state of extreme patience, the medical industries disinformation campaign has labeled this effect as couch lock in an attempt to demonize medical marijuana patients as lazy, this just isn’t true we really just have a tremendous amount of patience as a side effect of our medicine.
The seeds also contain every nutrient a human body needs. It’s the perfect human food. The only reason it was outlawed was because the oil, and oil based plastics industry didn’t want to compete against hemp oil and cellulose based plastic, which is way less toxic, biodegradable creating no pollution. They couldn’t make any money on their toxic expensive products with the better options available, so they lobbied government (bribed them) to outlaw hemp.
That, and the fact hemp is used to make best hanging rope, I reckon they are sacred of being lynched by the great unwashed.
As for what to do about governments who make unjust laws because some corporate psychopath just bribed them, is to disobey. It is the moral duty of everyone to disobey to complying with unjust laws. In court with a jury of peers, they don’t have to find you guilty if it’s unjust. Of course they won’t tell you or the jury that, but it’s true. Doesn’t matter how many laws they make or how loudly they bully or threaten. An unjust law is not lawful. Same goes for people caught smoking cannabis where they’ve outlawed it. There is no basis to outlaw it, so it’s not lawful to do so.
Having just said that about cannabis, it does need an age restriction on it’s use. Because like alcohol it can do great damage to teenagers developing brains and can trigger schizophrenia, It also causes many students to fail their exams by turning them into the apathetically non-studious.
Agreed Pix. Nullification is a little known (to most) but valid solution to unjust laws. Not so sure about your theory on teenagers tho, not enough data known from legitimate testing unless you can provide it.