Hemp is an annual renewable resource that can provide every single product made from trees. The key word here is RENEWABLE. The Amazon Rainforest IS NOT. Some will say that we are "stewards" of the rainforest because some (small percentage)of the land is "reforested". But the truth of the matter is that when "deforestation" occurs countless animals are displaced and die due to mass animal exodus and disruptions in the food chain, resulting in the loss of undiscovered plant and animal species and the medicines that might have been made from them. Not to mention the overall loss of plant life on this planet, which actively reduces the amount of co2 in our atmosphere. An ancient forest has dynamic energy. It is not only the individual plant and animal species that call it home, or the food chain that exists among them. Something much more important is lost. Something that Mainstream science will not attempt to understand. (Read The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield) When "reforestation" occurs, specifically selected species of trees are planted in neatly organized rows by the design of some person. This does not "reforest". This is farming. A forest is not planted. A forest forms on its own, without guidance. Animals come to live there on their own and become deeply interconnected with it just as the various plant species, or like how humans are an integral part of a city. "Reforested" land will most likely never produce an actual rainforest. It's just one more on a long line of half-assed attempts to appease concerned enviromentalists for the sake of PR and mass appeal, like putting out hybrid cars when fully electric cars are a much cleaner and cheaper alternative. It seems the powers that be want the planets current life gone. All of our major endeavors are counterproductive to our continued existence. Most of our new giant leaps are being held back and distorted into something meaningless and/or destructive. And life on earth is disappearing fast. More species are endangered than ever before, including but not limited to 70% of the worlds assessed plants, one in four of the worlds mammals, and one third of all amphibians. Coral has also been added to the list. Marine life is equally effected(IUCN Red List). Hemp can be made into every single paper product that currently exists. The stalks can be made to grow thick enough to provide firewood. Every single kind of wooden building material can be replaced by various metals, plastics, stone and other material. The fact is, "logging"(destroying the lifeforms that provide life-giving oxygen while reducing co2 content - for money)and fossil fuels can be entirely replaced by resources that continuously replenish themselves.

Sure! Hemp is good for the production of a whole lot of things besides marijuana. Things that spring to mind immediately are clothing and rope.

Yes. Will this ever happen? I wouldn't count on it.

Yes, definitely!

in validation of the rain forest issue, there's a logging company (i forget which) that says "for every tree we cut down, we plant a new one". have you ever seen pictures of these reforested areas? they really do replant the trees..... IN FUCKING CROP ROWS... its not a reforestation attempt, it's a project to make the forests that they cut down during the next arboreal generation THAT much easier to chop down. i fucking hate deforestation when everything that daniel jackson down there said about hemp being able to completely replace the use of trees is true. plus the more trees we save by planting and harvesting the STALKS for hemp, the more BUD can be harvested for SMOKINGGGGG!!!! :D

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Yes they really should. It is so stupid to think that it has anything to do with getting high. (Even if it was, so what?) But anyway, it is a good fiber and it is mistaken with marijuana.