The widespread cultivation of an invasive non-native species of plant to solve an environmental crisis is just another environmental crisis.
Hemp, and cannabis, should be legal.
But this fetishization has to stop.
Billions of people all over the world have never faced a prohibition on the cultivation of hemp. Millions of tons of it are grown every year in China and across the world and there are no restrictions on its importation. Right now you can go on alibaba.com and get an entire shipping container of hemp delivered to your loading dock practically anywhere in the world.
Growing hemp has been legal for decades in much of Europe, forever in China, France, and Russia.
Articles like this only really lead to two possible conclusions:
1. Hemp isn't a wonder substance, or
2. All seven billion four hundred million people on Earth who aren't Americans are so stupid that they can't figure out how to turn hemp into miracle products and only the brave and skilled American men of science are capable enough to tease out its reclusive secrets where Europeans, Indians, Chinese, and others have failed after centuries of trying.
Yeah... I'm going to go with option 1. I've done a lot of traveling and there are smart people all over the world.
Articles like this are just the worst:
"It can be grown on a wide scale on nutrient poor soils with very small amounts of water and no fertilizers."
30 seconds talking to a Canadian or French hemp grower, or 15 seconds on your search engine of choice proves this, with decades of research by university and government agricultural department scientists to back it up (or hell just perusing one back issue of High Times) to be false.
Hemp is a plant like any other, it takes energy from the sun, carbon from the air, and material from the earth and turns them into plant matter.
In soils with poor nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and sulfur levels-- nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and sulfur must be added.
Hemp, and cannabis, should be legal.
But this fetishization has to stop.
Billions of people all over the world have never faced a prohibition on the cultivation of hemp. Millions of tons of it are grown every year in China and across the world and there are no restrictions on its importation. Right now you can go on alibaba.com and get an entire shipping container of hemp delivered to your loading dock practically anywhere in the world.
Growing hemp has been legal for decades in much of Europe, forever in China, France, and Russia.
Articles like this only really lead to two possible conclusions:
1. Hemp isn't a wonder substance, or
2. All seven billion four hundred million people on Earth who aren't Americans are so stupid that they can't figure out how to turn hemp into miracle products and only the brave and skilled American men of science are capable enough to tease out its reclusive secrets where Europeans, Indians, Chinese, and others have failed after centuries of trying.
Yeah... I'm going to go with option 1. I've done a lot of traveling and there are smart people all over the world.
Articles like this are just the worst:
"It can be grown on a wide scale on nutrient poor soils with very small amounts of water and no fertilizers."
30 seconds talking to a Canadian or French hemp grower, or 15 seconds on your search engine of choice proves this, with decades of research by university and government agricultural department scientists to back it up (or hell just perusing one back issue of High Times) to be false.
Hemp is a plant like any other, it takes energy from the sun, carbon from the air, and material from the earth and turns them into plant matter.
In soils with poor nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and sulfur levels-- nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and sulfur must be added.