| There are many benefits to pursuing hemp as an | | | | competitor, but that is simply because hemp is better |
| industrial crop. For far too long, hemp has been | | | | than many other materials, and why should we hold |
| suppressed, and while it flourishes in many other | | | | back something great because it would eliminate |
| countries, the United States refuses to embrace this | | | | something less great? Isn't utilizing hemp the very |
| amazing plant. Because of the United States strong | | | | definition of free marketing competition? They never |
| influence in the world, its policies affect many other | | | | said hold back planes because they would put trains |
| countries, and unfortunately this is the situation with | | | | out of business; sometimes, something needs to die for |
| hemp. If the United States and the international | | | | something better to take its place. |
| community would fully embrace hemp, this world could | | | | Ultimately, the net gains from hemp would far outweigh |
| change in revolutionary ways. | | | | the costs. Many more jobs would be created than lost, |
| The first great thing about hemp is its abundance and | | | | and as stated, those that are lost are because those |
| renewability. You can grow upwards of ten tons of | | | | industries are inferior. More importantly, totally |
| hemp on just one acre of land, and it only takes four | | | | embracing hemp will result in a cleaner, greener |
| months to yield this amount. No other crop comes | | | | economy that could result in reversing the greenhouse |
| close to these kinds of statistics. Also, hemp is actually | | | | effect and saving the planet (when hemp grows, it |
| good for the soil and does not drain it, making it a great | | | | removes massive amounts of CO2 from the |
| soil builder for crop rotation. There is no shortage of | | | | atmosphere). With all the incredible advantages that |
| hemp, just as there is no shortage of the uses for it. | | | | can be gained from growing hemp, it is horrifying to |
| A revitalized hemp industry would create millions of | | | | think that we deny ourselves such fortune because |
| jobs and spark a struggling economy. The potential for | | | | the THC-laden version of hemp happens to be an |
| hemp industry is endless. You can make hemp paint, | | | | "intoxicant", and a miraculously medicinal one at that. |
| hemp rope, hemp foods, hemp building materials, hemp | | | | One day, the world will look back at the period of |
| fuel... the uses go on and on. With this new source of | | | | hemp Prohibition, and weep at what was lost and |
| products, businesses would emerge that would find | | | | what could have been. This statement applies more to |
| new and more efficient uses for hemp. Some | | | | the medicinal aspect of cannabis, but everything that |
| industries would be hurt by hemp existing as a | | | | has been destroyed is truly terrible. |