Hemp is our Savior
It has been once said that as a human race, if our current rate of deforestation of trees continues at the same rate as today, in less than fifty years we will no longer be able to survive on this planet. Sometime in the near future, a great change must be made for the fate of human kind. This change is going to have to be to legalize industrial hemp. Hemp is a plant that has a wide variety of uses. It has been proven that the stalk of the hemp plant can produce three times as much paper that trees can produce(1). Many countries have already begun to start cultivating hemp but it still remains illegal to grow industrial hemp in the United States.
The reason that hemp became illegal is because the marijuana tax act illegalized marijuana in 1937, and because industrial hemp is marijuana’s cousin, the two became to be thought as the same thing and hemp became illegal. But these two different plants are far from the same. Industrial hemp contains such a low......
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