Marijuana Laws: Hemp

Marijuana Laws: Hemp

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Potential benefits associated with hemp are extensive, and have been reintroduced as a crop in a number of countries
    • Great Britain, Germany, Australia, and Canada just to name some

United States federal government continues to ban hemp

United States also continues to mislead the public about this product

Hemp crops are environmentally friendly
    • They do not require herbicides and require little or no pesticides

Hemp also enriches the soil instead of depleting it

Used as a textile and a building material and also used in food products

The cultivation of hemp has been legalized in five states
    • Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakoth, and West Virginia

Hemp and Marijuana are part of the same plant and hemp can't be produced without producing marijuana

DEA sticks to its prohibition of hemp because hemp crops provide cover-ups for the illegal marijuana plants they were growing

Cross pollination of the plants creates a lower lever of THC content in marijuana

Really neat and interesting website about Hemp.  It gives great information about the history and also different facts about Hemp: http://naihc.org/hemp_information/hemp_facts.html
 

 

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