Fabric, rope, paints, lighting oil, fossil fuels, paper, medicine, building materials & hemp seed foods are just a few of the many uses of the cannabis plant. Hemp also has very deep roots which help to prevent soil erosion, making it an excellent rotation crop requiring fewer pesticides & fertilizers than other crops such as cotton.

Hemp is the perfect source to replace trees for housing & building materials as well as all other items made from our forests. One acre of hemp produces as much pulp fiber & cellulose as 4.1 acres of trees. The hemp plant uses the sun more efficiently than virtually any other plant on our planet, reaching a robust 12 to 20 feet or more in one short growing season. It can grow in virtually any climate or soil condition on Earth, even marginal ones.

The list of therapeutic applications of cannabis is long in both use & history. There are more than 60 therapeutic compounds in cannabis that are healing agents in medical & herbal treatments. It is plain to see that the decrease in consumption of nonrenewable resources through increased hemp farming can bring about a "Healing of the Nations"

Hemp is It
Eat it, Wear it. Grow it. Live it.

Why is hemp
not grown in US?

In 1937 Congress passed the Marihuana Tax Act which effectively began the era of hemp prohibition. The tax and licensing regulations of the act made hemp cultivation unfeasable for American farmers. The chief promoter of the Tax Act, Harry Anslinger, began promoting anti-marijuana legislation around the world. To learn more about hemp prohibition visit http://jackhere.com or check out "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" by Jack Herer Then came World War II. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor shut off foreign supplies of "manilla hemp" fiber from the Phillipines.

The US government formed War Hemp Industries and subsidized hemp cultivation. During the War and US farmers grew about a million acres of hemp across the midwest as part of that program. After the war ended, the government quietly shut down all the hemp processing plants and the industry faded away again.

During the period from 1937 to the late 60's the US government understood and acknowledged that Industrial Hemp and marijuana were not the same plant. Hemp is no longer recognized as distinct from marijuana since the passage of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) of 1970A. This is despite the fact that a specific exemption for hemp was included in the CSA under the definition of marijuana.

Hemp is perhaps one of the greatest solutions available to us in regard to re establishing ecosytems, and also relieving or slowing down our deforestation rates...We have to find a solution, what if it's here and we do not act upon what we know to be?

Using environmentally friendly products is an easy first step in securing a safe place for our children & future generations to come, as well as ourselves at this moment. For the time is now upon us to start conscience living and with the use of hemp products the change can come quickly and more easily.