Forget Carbon Neutral, Time To Grow Hemp

Of all the stupid bone-headed ideas I've seen carbon-neutral takes the cake. No need to create a new process by which carbon credits are created and exchanged to offset pollution. It's unnecessary. Growing plants capture and sequester the excess CO2 in the air, we all just need to grow more plants.

What better way to clean the air than fields of industrial hemp. It is probably the worlds fasted growing annual plant, and an acre of hemp yields 4 times more biomass than an acre of forest. We don't need pesticides to grow it, or fertilizers. The products are many, varied, and can lead to even more sustainable practices/products.

Using Du Pont's patented paper making process from trees, all sorts of chlorines, dioxins, and emissions are used or created in the paper-pulp making process. It also uses trees of which only 30% is roughly available to be made into paper. That compares to 80% of a hemp plant, and no nasty chemical or by-products are needed/created.

So we've got fields of industrial hemp growing, acting like big scrubbers for the atmosphere. They take in all sorts of CO2 the number 1 greenhouse gas, so why aren't we growing it by the hectare? Oh, that's right, it's not legal here in the US. Everyone confuses industrial hemp with the drug Marijuana because of a very long misinfomation campaign by corporations and the US government. The sad truth of the matter it Marijuana advocates aren't hemp advocates because industrial hemp lacks the Tetra-Hydro-Cannibinol to get one "high". People who grow Marijuana are against hemp, because the two would cross pollenate, and their drugs wouldn't get them high anymore.

But it's not just the Marijuana growers against industrial hemp. It's the cotton industry who is the number one user of pesticides, it's the US Department of Justice who needed something to do after they lost the fight against prohibition. They actually brought back hemp during WWII to win the war, and the USDA produced a bulletin about it.

In Canada the farmers currently clear, after costs are figured in $200 and acre for the industrial hemp they grow. They make $200 an acre, without using any pesticides, or chemical fertilizers! No wonder the US government fears the plant so, it undoes everything they tell the farmers to use!!