It is a commonly used term for high-growing industrial varieties of the Cannabis plant and its products, which include fibre, oil and seed.Hemp is refined into products such as hemp seed foods, hemp oil, wax, resin, rope, cloth, pulp, paper and fuel.
Industrial Hemp is not to be confused with the close relative cannabis, which is also a Cannabis plant, but is widely used as a recreational drug and medicine.
THE BENEFITS OF USING HEMP:
- Hemp fibre is the longest, strongest and most durable of all natural fibres.
- Hemp cultivation requires no chemicals, pesticides or herbicides and controls erosion of the topsoil and produces oxygen.
- Grown in rotation with other crops such as corn and legumes, hemp farming is completely sustainable.
- Hemp produces four times as much fibre per acre as pine trees.
- Hemp tree-free paper can be recycled up to seven times, compared with three times for pine-pulp based papers.
- Hemp is easy to grow, and actually conditions the soil where it grows.
- The seed and seed-oil are HIGH IN PROTEIN, ESSENTIAL FATTY AND AMINO ACIDS AND VITAMINS.
- Hemp would be an ideal source of biomass for fuel and hemp Ethanol burns very cleanly.
- Hemp and humanity have been linked for over 10, 000 years.
- Hemp was our first agricultural crop, and remained the planet's largest crop and most important industry until late last century.
- Furthermore, hemp can be used to replace many potentially harmful products, such as tree paper, (the processed of which used chlorine bleach, which results in the waste product 'polychlorinated dibenzodioxins', popularly known as 'dioxins', which are carcinogenic and contribute to deforestation, cosmetics and plastic, most of which are petroleum-based and do not decompose easily. The strongest chemical needed to whiten the already light hemp paper is non-toxic hydrogen peroxide.
AT PRESENT...Hemp stalks and seeds are used by industrial/commercial companies for textiles, foods, papers, body care products, detergents, plastics and building materials.
Today hemp for commercial use is grown mostly by China, Hungary, England, Canada, Australia, France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and India and throughout Asia.
The difference between - Hemp and Marijuana: both
come from the same plant - Cannabis Sativa L. However, it is from a
different variety, or subspecies that contains many important differences.
Industrial
hemp contains only about 0.3% - 1.5% THC (Tetrahydrocannabinoids, the
intoxicating ingredients that make you high) while marijuana contains about 5%
- 10% or more THC.
In order to get a psychoactive effect, one would need to smoke ten or twelve hemp cigarettes over a very short period of time.
In order to get a psychoactive effect, one would need to smoke ten or twelve hemp cigarettes over a very short period of time.
“Industrial
hemp could transform the economy of the ‘Whole World’ in a positive and
beneficial way, and therefore should be exploited to its full potential.”
