Legalize Industrial Hemp!

iSmokeweed

iSmokeweed

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I have been doing a lot of independent research about Industrial Hemp, and its astounding that it is still illegal. Its connection to marijuana has kept it illegal, but ironicly it is known by some as "anti-marijuana".

some facts you probably know:

Hemp contains very low amounts of THC

Hemp is strongest natural grown fiber

Hemp is a schedule one drug.

Some Facts you may not know.

Hemp seeds are super healthy.

Hemp is a much more efficient way to make paper/ helps stop deforestation

through cross pollination, industrial hemp will actually weaken the potency of marijuana.

Hemp is legal in Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, and many other developed nations.

Its connection to marijuana actually got one teacher fired for explaining the benefits of industrial hemp. People need to be educated. This plant can bring life to the agricultural economy.

its time to legalized hemp!

(For basic knowledge)

http://www.votehemp.com/myths_facts.html

Hempsters (recommended film documentary)

THANK YOU!
 
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Hemp

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Marijuana

the difference is so obvious.
 
oh sorry.

the DEA says that if hemp were to be legalized, then it would impossible to regulate it because hemp and marijuana look pretty much the same.
 
Think about this one for a second. You can either:

A: Cut down a portion of a forest, and let the forest grow back over a short timespan (80-100 years in our neck of the woods.)

B: Permanently cut down a section of forest for the use of growing hemp. The forest will not grow back on that land for a a LONG time, b/c it is permanently used for farmland.

OP is a gaper of the environment.
 
That's faulty logic.

Hemp can grow over one summer and be harvest-able for fibre. your average spruce or pine forest for pulp will take 20-30 years for the same rotation. So you can get 20-30 harvest in the same land over the same time period as you get 1 for forest.

Also hemp requires way way way less chemicals and processing to turn into paper.

that was actually the reason it was made illegal in the first place. Chemical companies has $$ and lobbyists that pushed hemp to be illegal so they could make even more $$ on selling chemicals to process wood into paper as hemp didn't need it.

Hemp wins hands down.
 
except that it takes less than a year to do a cycle of hemp, compared to the 80-100 years you so magically came up with for a forest.

please delete this thread. i understand the op's intentions trying to inform people, but honestly, people are fuckin stupid and don't think for themselves. you get people like ^this guy using "logic" to voice his opinion on something he clearly knows nothing about, yet thats how 95% of society acts/thinks so there's really not a good chance of any change. mainly because too many rich people will stop making money
 
I have taken courses on forest management in college, I know at least a little bit. Forestry is not 'destructive' like most people think.

Normal forestry, the forest grows back and you can alternate crop locations, with hemp or any kind of farmland, forest succession takes much longer. Not saying one is better than the other, just something to consider.
 
Cool. but thats not a very affordable or realistic way to make large amounts of pulp/paper products.
 
not the way we do things now, but a few years down the road and i wouldnt be surprised if rooftop real estate becomes its own industry.
 
i understand forestry and cycles, but you can't deny the fact that, as someone stated above, it takes 20-30 years for pine/spruce to grow back. meanwhile you can cycle hemp yearly and produce a much larger quantity of paper over the 20-30 years, along with 20,000+ other products that hemp can be used for. the reason why most crop lands don't "grow back" or become "natural" or however you want to word it is mostly because of the chemicals used, not necessarily the plants. hemp can be grown on every continent and under some of the most extreme variables, and is the most robust and durable fiber known to man. the first marijuana law in the U.S. was that you had to grow it. then it was illegal because it made you crazy. then it was illegal because it made you lazy. makes lots of sense...
 
People may not no this but actually in the countries that have hemp and other drugs legalized, the crime rate and other things such as wife abuse, children abuse have gone down so much that there are little to no crime. People are just high all the time xDD. So yea it should be legalized
 
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