Do you know what it means for something to be sustainable? Do you think it means that there will always be more of something because there is just so much of it to begin with? Or maybe if something is sustainable, it’s easy to keep it around? Is that what you think?
Well, you’re wrong.
Our planet is a disaster these days. It’s kind of like political crazy town and freefall all at the same time. You know the video game, Borderlands? Yeah, it’s like that.
And then there’s the environment. It’s basically being flushed down the toilet. At this point, we’ve got people in really powerful positions in politics who don’t give a flying you know what about clean water or unpolluted air or trees. It’s crazy around here these days.
Well, guess what could help? Guess!
Give up?
It’s hemp!
HEMP, people. Hemp is gonna save us from disaster. Now, I know that hemp, with its super low levels of THC, isn’t really that much fun to talk about. I mean, it can’t get you high, right? True.
But you know what it can do? It can cut down on deforestation by providing all of the natural fibers we would need. Hemp, otherwise known as Cannabis Sativa L., has been grown and used for centuries. In many countries hemp was grown to make ropes and twines, as well as textiles for sails and other necessary gear on a ship. In ancient times, hemp was used to make paper, as well as many many different fabrics.
Hemp, people. Not groves of trees that will just be clear cut, leaving wooded spaces empty and naked. Hemp.
Here’s something else you probably didn’t know. Hemp grows like a weed—get it?!?! It requires very little maintenance and doesn’t need a constant source of water in order for it to survive. In fact, it prefers to grow close together and will do just fine in almost any type of soil.
So basically, instead of growing cotton, which needs to be tended all the time, we should be growing hemp! We’d be saving water, we wouldn’t be throwing nasty chemicals into the ground, and we wouldn’t have to worry about figuring out a way to constantly maintain it…because it does it all by itself!
Instead, Americans have decided to completely ignore the fact that hemp is one of the best resources we could grow. They decided that hemp is baaaaaaad news.
Wait. Who decided this? And what the heck were they thinking???
Read part II of this info session about hemp to get all of the juicy details of what really happened to give hemp such a bad name.
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