This goes along with several other articles I shared over the past month or so. It appears that industry has finally found a way to open the door to the use of an extremely useful product.
Unfortunately for hemp, being a near-relative and lookalike of marijuana has meant that it has always been tarnished by association.
So while hemp is a very useful crop that can be turned into everything from clothes to shoes, paper, animal feed and building insulation, the cultivation of it was banned in many countries during the 20th Century.
Many years ago, I found it growing wild in gulleys around corn fields in Iowa. I bet there’s a whole lot of that still around.
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