Woody Harrelson is greatly pleased.
Until it’s not against federal law, it’s not a career, and it’s not an investment.
Several of the Founding Father were hemp farmers, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams. It had nothing to do with marijuana, which is a special, artificial cultivar.
It is so valuable that the USA legally reversed itself in 1942, encouraging farmers to grow it for the war effort, even producing a propaganda film for that purpose: Hemp for Victory.
Hemp is the source of highly durable fiber, and highly nutritious food.
Sailing ship hawsers were often called hemp, because that was the fiber from which they were made. It is much stronger than cotton. (Some are convinced that the first Levi’s jeans were made from hemp.)
The fatty acid profile is close to ideal for humans: It contains both EFAs, and both first derivatives:
Omega-6:
Linoleic Acid [EFA}
Gamma-Linolenic Acid
Omega-3:
Alpha-Linolenic Acid [EFA]
Stearidonic Acid
The shelled nut (achene) meat is about 30% protein, with a superior amino acid profile to soy protein, and greater digestibility. It is highly unusual in that it is about two-thirds globulin protein.
Hemp protein was one of the first natural substances studied in the Nineteenth Century at the dawn of modern chemistry.
everything will be grand then......and I get to live thru it.....
Of course, a billion or two is a droplet in the tank of our national economy — and the new spending on that industry is diverted from spending elsewhere, so it is really not a great net creator for other than the individuals in that particular business.
I have 26 acres in northern maine if anyone wants to pay to grow hemp on
it
Ironically, hemp is doing better than marijuana. Weed is selling wholesale for about $35 an oz in Oregon and there is a tremendous amount of supply.
I look forward to clothing made of hemp fiber, and bedding, etc. Sooooffft.