Hemp is not Marijuana

[reform]

Hemp has been used for centuries upon centuries.

It is known to cure cancer and help with other ailments.

The hemp plant has more known productive uses than any other plant.

If we wanted to turn the economy around in the U.S. all we would need to do is open up the Hemp Industry.

Here are just a few articles and sites for research. 

It is worth the time to be educated on this matter. 

This could be our future. 

 

 

• Hemp is healthy: Hemp seeds pack a powerful nutritional punch. Two tablespoons of shelled hemp seeds contain about 11 grams of protein and 2 grams of unsaturated omega-3 fatty acids. And, as TreeHugger reported, hemp seeds have a " "perfectly balanced 1:3 ratio of naturally-occurring omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids...unlike other seeds and nutritional oils, such as flax..."
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• Hemp is good for the economy: The total retail value of North American hemp products was valued at around $400 million in 2009, but U.S. farmers are unable to benefit from this since hemp products are imported.

 

They also noted that the reason why industrial hemp cannot be grown in the United States is because the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) refuses to acknowledge that hemp is not the same as marijuana. As TreeHugger reported:

"The United States is the only industrialized nation where growing industrial hemp is illegal. And because of that we're missing out on huge economic opportunity...


http://www.lewrockwell.com/mercola/mercola120.html

 

HEMP FACTS

http://www.naihc.org/hemp_information/hemp_facts.html

 

HENRY FORD original plans were for a hemp fueled car.

The oil industry fought this.

http://hempcar.org/ford.shtml

 

Dupont, Hearst, Cotton Industries, oil companies, etc... all fought to make hemp illegal.

They were able to do this with propaganda that stated hemp and marijuana were the same.

 

Hemp uses:

http://www.hempusa.org/hmps/articles/hemp-uses.html