It's cheap to grow, will grow anywhere, has no THC in it, and can be of use. Why do you think it is illegal to grow the non-mind altering hemp plant?
2007-05-20 15:00:56 · 10 answers · asked by Holiday Magic 7 in Environment ➔ Green Living
Read up a bit more, Joe. The hemp plant is a completely different plant--and it is not even grown the same way as the marijuana plant. It can be planted much closer together than can marijuana...
2007-05-20 15:15:48 · update #1
I think, Sidekick, that all of those displaced workers would have new jobs with the new fuel...
2007-05-20 17:19:50 · update #2
Remember, 'memyselfand eye', that we are talking about hemp--not marijuana. That was an interesting movie, though.
2007-05-20 17:23:08 · update #3
Yes, Maus, it is illegal. My point being that if it can supply us with new, clean, cheaper fuel--why should it be?
2007-05-20 17:25:19 · update #4
You're right, Intrepid, it does contain less than 1%--which is trace, and is not at all mind-altering. No one smokes hemp.
2007-05-20 17:27:50 · update #5
b/c we have very ignorant people running this country
2007-05-20 15:07:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
That is very true...
Especially taking into account scientists have already invented strains that have almost no effect if smoked.
(No THC)
Hemp is actually the fastest growing carbon sequestering crop on the planet....
We may actually have to one day cover the planet in hemp to sequester all the polution we have caused in our efforts to combat global warming.
With this hemp is also the best biofuel on the planet... It burns at very high temperatures and in one of my books on Renewable Energy (what i study in engineering) (called the big switch) there was also a letter by the energy department saying how we should throw seized crops in incinerators
This is as they are being burnt anyway and they have such a high carbon content they would be better off being thrown into the boilers at power stations.
Why arn't we using hemp as a fuel source?
Why would even conceive of farming energy crops when hemp has a much higher carbon content, grows a lot faster and is the best biofuel and textile on the planet...
Not to mention that the first Ford cars were designed and built with hemp and were heading toward a biofuel market, before they discovered cheaper ways to mine petrol..
GOOD QUESTION?? SO WHY IS HEMP ILLEGAL
Other than the view of it is a drug it is the second largest cash crop in the US next to corn.
It is already a large part of the economy..
The reason for no hemp farming, is probably first, the view of marijuana by the US public and governments, second the view of the governments on Renewable energys....
I am confident it will soon be realised how much of a tool hemp actually is in our current carbon crisis.
Especially as carbon sequestration cash crops are the rage for farmers recently, as well as farmers that are producing Energy Cash Crops for Biofuels
2007-05-20 23:02:29 · answer #2 · answered by Keyan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there is no such thing as a "hemp plant". Hemp is the woody fibers found in the stem of the Cannabis plant. While there is no THC in the hemp, the other parts of the plant do contain the drug. For some reason our culture has chosen to demonize this particular plant, and as such our government is willing to look past all of the potential good qualities because of the drug content. Hemp was the first fiber that made strong enough rope to enable ocean travel. Without it, Europeans would have never colonized this country.
2007-05-20 15:11:58 · answer #3 · answered by joecool123_us 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Where I'm from, hemp plants are legal to grow. Some countries have put the hemp plant as an illegal status because it is from the cannabis sativa L family and DOES contain THC, but only less than 1%.
2007-05-20 15:51:55 · answer #4 · answered by Intrep 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The government is hypocritical that way. But they are just representing the people, like a democratic government should. As you can see by some of the other answers, there are a lot of people opposed to it, and the government reflects that. And I suppose it would make it easier for people to get away with growing that OTHER plant, mixed in with the legal ones, if they were legal.
2007-05-20 15:54:01 · answer #5 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The turning out to be on hemp has at present become criminal returned in uk. it is additionally used partly instead for fibre glass and plastic panelling (in automobiles). the difficulty as I see it with this and any bio gasoline would be the soundness between utilising land for housing and infrastructure, nutrition production, or utilising a similar land for gasoline production. a help in international inhabitants might help cut back the 1st 2. regrettably the gasoline difficulty will continually enhance to apply up despite capability source it is accessible.
2016-11-25 20:20:51 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Watch "Grass", a documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson that was released a few years back. Highly recommended (no pun intended), it shows how marijuana became demonized in America, even after its benefits were discovered and argued for .
2007-05-20 15:43:06 · answer #7 · answered by memyselfandeye 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably because the US has a "war" on drugs. Even though it would only be grown for fuel, the government would fear it would be grown by some for recreational purposes.
2007-05-20 15:16:21 · answer #8 · answered by just me 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
there are many alternate fuels, but it takes decades to switch over because by doing so would put muti millions of people out of work globally, and would cause a world financial collapse
2007-05-20 16:53:57 · answer #9 · answered by sidekick 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because it's illegal?
2007-05-20 15:18:31 · answer #10 · answered by Maus 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋