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Industrial Hemp

There is no way anyone can make the argument that hemp wouldn't be a valuable addition to the nation's economy.
             Industrial hemp is a very prolific plant. "Industrial hemp can yield 3 to 8 dry tons of fiber per acre, this is four times what an average forest can yield" (Bielby n.p.). Hemp is also a very low maintenance crop. "Close to 50 percent of all the worlds pesticides are sprayed on cotton which is contaminating our drinking water. Hemp also grows well in a large variety of climates and requires half as much pesticides as most commercial crops"(Bielby). Hemp has all the production possibilities of cotton, but with a lower maintenance and cost.
             For a long time hemp was thought of as a viable resource. "Hemp has not always been thought of as a nuisance, or a crop that has been of no value to society"(Industrial n.p.). In 1637 in Hartford Connecticut a mandatory law was passed that each family plant at least one teaspoon full of hemp seed"(Hemp n.p.). Some colonies even found it so "valuable they passed legal tender laws so that hemp could be used to pay taxes"(Hemp). What kind of crop throughout U.S. history has had such a reputation that it has been used for legal tender? Before the prohibition of cannabis, even car companies had high hopes for this crop. .
             Henry Ford dreamed that someday automobiles would be grown from the soil. In 1941 the Ford Motor Company produced an experimental automobile with a plastic body composed of 70% cellulose fibers from hemp. The car was as durable as the steel used at the time and it was designed to work on hemp fuel, but because of the ban on both alcohol and hemp the car was never produced (Industrial). .
             hemp could be used to help replace the use of gasoline. .
             According to the Department of Energy and Dr. Brooks Kellie, hemp as a biomass fuel producer requires the least specialized growing and processing procedures of all the hemp products. The hydrocarbons in hemp can be processed in to a wide range of biomass energy sources, from fuel pellets to liquid fuels and gas.


Essays Related to Industrial Hemp

1. Legalization Of Industrial Hemp

... an alternative to the use of trees for paper, and an alternative to the use of many other things. I"m here today to persuade you to the many uses of industrial hemp. II. Body A. Industrial hemp is not a drug, it is not marijuana; it is a relative to the marijuana plant, but contains virtually no delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the mind-altering drug found in marijuana ... stronger, able to be recycled more times and longer lasting than paper from trees. Compared to wood, fewer c! hemicals are required to convert hemp into paper pulp. Industrial hemp also could serve as an environm...

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2. Industrial Hemp can save the world

... (Herer 33). That is absolutely ridiculous, and they do not even offer an explanation for these seemingly senseless actions. There are so many ways our country would benefit from growing industrial hemp, it is absolute insanity that our government continues to ignore them. The first and perhaps most obvious way in which we as a country would benefit from the ... industrial hemp would be an improvement in our environment. Hemp is a much better alternative to wood in the paper making process. Since the beginning of prohibition in 1937, over 70% of America's natural forest has been destroye...

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3. Legalizing Hemp

... . Second, many agricultural chemicals are dangerous and can contaminate the environment, the less we have to use the better. Yet another industrial use of hemp is in the manufacturing of paper. Both the fiber, (bast), and pulp, (hurd), of the hemp plant can be used to make paper. Fiber paper was the first kind of paper, and the first batch was made out ... even people. Beyond the chemical pollution, there are agricultural reasons why we should use cannabis hemp instead. When trees are harvested, minerals are taken with them. Another industrial use for hemp is in food. Hemp seed is a high...

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4. Hemp: God's Gift to Humanity

... trace amounts of the psychoactive chemical THC, is amazingly effective as an alternative source of fiber for cloth and paper products. Industrial use of the hemp plant has shaped the progress of humanity, composing the earliest discovered woven cloth, the first book ever written, the sails that ... get by for many, but in Canada, where industrial hemp is legally grown, farmers make about $225 per acre farming hemp, and the price continues to rise due to the seemingly exponential growth in demand for hemp products. (Ackerman) A single acre of hemp produces the equivalent of up to 3 acres...

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5. Legalize Hemp Textiles

... of 11 billion cubic feet of wood consumed each year: saving 135 million trees, each 100 feet tall and 1.5 feet in diameter. -Consider that- Industrial hemp is a raw material with an image problem. Until the 1930s, the hemp plant had served for centuries as one of the world's most valuable sources of fiber. It was used for thousands of products, from marine rigging ... and sails to fine laces. Adventurous settlers traveled west in Conestoga wagons covered with hemp canvas and worked in jeans made from hemp cloth. For more than two centuries, hemp was a valuable cash crop for American far...

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6. Hemp

... speculate that it will fuel the nation in the future. Small numbers of workers are required to cultivate hemp. Hemp is an easy crop to grow, and its fibers can be easily extracted from its stalk. Certain strains of cannabis have been selected for industrial hemp for their properties of rapid growth and a great quality and quantity of fiber. Back in the 1920s, one ... thousand pounds of hemp could be processed in a single hour. It can be grown in any state. The growing season is short, making ... a perfect cash crop. Today's technology could produce industrial hemp with much more effici...

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7. The Benefits of Industrial Hemp

Industrial hemp should be legalized for commercial growth in the U.S. because there are many uses and benefits we can gain from it. Hemp can be used for anything from plastics, to rope, to biodiesel; it is a very versatile crop. Some benefits from growing hemp in the U.S. are it would create jobs, farmers would again be able to grow the cash crop and products produced from ... a much faster rate than other crops and is the most cost effective.We would be able to become less dependent on foreign fuels, and hemp is a sustainable resource. Hemp can help us slow global warming. Some benefits from...

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8. Montana Hemp

The Farmers High Hemp is not pot and does not represent hippies and free love. "Industrial hemp and marijuana are both from the same species, but are distinguished by the level of THC, the substance which causes a high from smoking marijuana. Marijuana contains levels of THC which can be greater than 10 percent, while the level of THC in hemp is less than 1 percent."(2). "By ... definition hemp is an annual plant belonging to ... to use herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides since the plant grows extremely well without them. "Seventy percent of Montana adults who responded to a December surve...

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9. legalize hemp

... . Even America's first president George Washington encouraged people to grow hemp by saying,Make the most you can of the Indian hemp seed. Sow it everywhere.? Colonies were pushing so hard for people to grow hemp that for industrial reasons that in 1671, the colony of Maryland offered local growers ... one pound of tabacco for every pound of hemp that was traded. Some colonist even built plantations where hemp was the main crop. Two early plantation owners ... were George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Having these two former presidents growing hemp ... and sunlight for weeds to grow....

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