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... Hemp has been harvested for thousands of years for its fibers and seeds. ...
A common misconception of hemp is that it is the same as marijuana. ... Although they are in the same genus and species, hemp contains less than 0. ... This means a user would need to smoke at least 700 times the amount of hemp as marijuana. ... If one were to actually succeed in smoking that much hemp, not only would they fail to get high, they would probably get a massive headache. If you consider how much industrial hemp can improve our quality of life: that your plastics are even stronger and biodegrade in a landfill, gas prices can remain constant because oil would no longer be an import, and trees would never need to be cut for paper again.
One may ask, “If hemp is so useful, why did the government make hemp illegal?” Industrial hemp was legal in the United States until 1937 when the “Marijuana Tax Act” came to be. When they wrote this act, they refer to marijuana as “all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa,“ this includes hemp. ... According to the USDA, “It is impossible to differentiate hemp and marijuana without testing the THC levels.” This is a ridiculous statement: industrial hemp has almost no smell and marijuana can be described as a skunky odor, hemp is a pale and sickly green compared to marijuana, hemp’s flowers are much less frequent and less dense, marijuana is stored in some form of plastic bags and hidden, whereas hemp is left exposed in the back of a truck usually. Law enforcement could easily be trained to know the difference between industrial hemp and marijuana. Even if a small plot of marijuana was grown in a vast field of hemp, one helicopter could spot the section of spread out darker green, surrounded by a sea of pale dense hemp.
Approximate Word count = 1486
Approximate Pages = 5.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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