Auto-SummaryHemp, a cannabis plant, was legally grown in the US until the 1950s but is now illegal due to the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. Hemp is environmentally friendly, requiring no pesticides and minimal pollution. It can replace materials like cotton, oil, and corn in various products, reducing reliance on trees and chemicals. Hemp's fast growth and ability to absorb heavy metals make it ideal for soil remediation. The plant can be used to create over 25,000 products, including paper, which can be bleached using natural enzymes, eliminating harmful chlorine. To combat pollution and promote sustainability, legislation must change to allow hemp cultivation. Educating the public and pushing for hemp as the primary crop is crucial for a healthier planet and future generations.
Hemp is still cannabis therefore it is still illegal. here is a paper i wrote on industrial hemp:
Hemp was grown commercially (with increasing governmental interference) in the United States until the 1950s. It was doomed by the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, which placed an extremely high tax on marijuana and made it effectively impossible to grow industrial hemp. While Congress expressly expected the continued production of industrial hemp, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics lumped industrial hemp with marijuana, as it's successor the US Drug Enforcement Administration, does to this day. (Hemp Facts) this was the wrong thing to do to our planet.
As our society grows, so does the concern for environmentally friendly consumer products. Hemp is the future of our industries. Products that once contained other materials such as oil, cotton and corn, will soon transition into one hundred percent hemp materials. Hemp is the most environmentally friendly fiber to use for consumer products. There are a plethora of reasons to use hemp in place of other materials. A few areas of topic come to mind when talking about hemp. Pollution and the environment are effected minimally by the production of hemp and its products. The various products that can be made from hemp are astonishing. People have to come to their eco-conscious minds and start progressing forward to help the environment. We cannot let our children suffer in the future we build for them. If parents feel that they need to protect their children, they should start by realizing that we need to take care of Mother Earth.
Pollution is a very sad and degrading problem that occurs in the world we live in. pollution can be in our air, water, ground, and neighborhoods. It seems that no one really cares about the negative effects pollution has on our planet and us. Toxins and chemicals that are harmful to us need to stop being used once and for all. Hemp offers many possible solutions to a less polluted and gloomy environment. Typically, plants have many predators to worry about. Paula Heaney talks about chemical use on hemp. “With few natural predators, hemp needs little to no pesticides” (Hemp and the Environment). Since hemp has no natural predators, farmers don’t have to use toxic chemicals to ward them off. Once it rains, the toxic chemicals soak into the ground and cause contamination to water and the ground. Hemp can also be grown to promote ground waste clean up. Heaney knows that hemp can soak up toxic spills or ground contamination by “absorbing heavy-metal contaminants” hemp can purify the soil (Hemp and the Environment). Hemp then breaks these chemicals down into non-toxic particles. Much of the pollution on planet Earth can be eliminated if hemp is grown instead of other plants that have natural predators. People should see the correlation that hemp has with our environment. As the hemp farming increases, the amount of chemicals that go into our soil is decreased.
For thousands of years different cultures have been using hemp for various products. Everything from oils to fibers can be made from hemp. According to Hempline, over twenty five thousand products can be produced from hemp (Hemp Defined) twenty five thousand products is a big number considering hemp is just a plant. Hemp can stop deforestation because hemp is a yearly renewable resource (Hemp and the Environment). If people stopped chopping down the forests, more diverse animal habitats would exist. Being a very fast grower, Haney says, “plants grow 6 to 16 feet tall in only 110 days” (Hemp and the Environment). It takes years for a tree to grow as tall as hemp does.
When hemp is processed into paper pulp less harmful chemicals are needed. According to Heaney, hemp paper does not need chlorine to be bleached. She goes on to discuss that, “Scientists in Sweden have developed a hemp-bleaching process that uses only natural enzymes and some pounding of the pulp” (Hemp and the Environment). Why would people want to have to use harmful chemicals such as bleach, when they could just skip that process by using hemp? People really seem to amaze me with bad logic, but sadly hemp pulp still isn’t that majority of paper, and plenty of chemicals are dumped into the water. Trees are still being murdered by the acre every day. The chlorine bleach is still being dumped into the ground. Then not only does the bleach make the soil useless for growing, the ground water is contaminated. Hemp paper can be recycled again and again more than wood pulp paper (Hemp Defined). Although the hemp revolution is beginning in Canada, one country alone cannot stand up to the task of playing conservationist. Every country has to adopt a new legislation and review the facts of hemp and what it can do to help the environment. Saying goodbye to old crops such as cotton and trees, people can use the most environmentally friendly plant to yield the same end products.
With all of this information in mind, it’s time to make a stand for humanity and switch to using one hundred percent hemp for all consumer products. Products such as oils, cosmetics, and fibers should be substituted with hemp to promote a cleaner environment. Respecting our planet should be priority to many people, but sadly people take their lives for granted. Seeing other people acting so disrespectful to this earth really takes a toll on environmentalists. Current laws need to be addressed if we want hemp to be grown legally. Hemp only contains 0.3 percent THC (the active psychoactive substance in marijuana) (Hemp Facts). Legislation must be pretty blind if they see past this fact. You couldn’t even smoke enough hemp to feel a buzz of any kind.
As the need for hemp draws closer, people must be educated on the facts about hemp. The laws that lay in the way of mass hemp farming will soon be gone. A single person cannot stand up to the government alone. To legalize hemp will take a nation of caring and compassionate people. Don’t look at the legalization of hemp a scary thing. Some people will always be ignorant and claim that, “legalizing hemp is just so you can smoke pot hippie.” Don’t let these naïve folks ruin your day. With open minds and open hearts for the environment, we can make a difference for our children. Make their future bright! Don’t leave it up to them to worry about the environment. Mother Earth will thank us eventually when hemp is the primary plant farmed in the world.
Heaney, Paula. "Hemp and the Environment."The Thistle Volume 13, Number 2: Sept./Oct., 2000.. Retrieved 20 March 2006 <http://mit.edu/thistle/www/v13/2/enviro.html >.
http://www.naihc.org. Hemp facts. Retrieved 16 March 2006 <http://www.naihc.org/hemp_information/hemp_facts.html >.
Hempreport.com. Home page. Retrieved 17 March. 2006 <http://www.hempreport.com>.
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