Industrial Hemp Research Paper

Much of today’s society thinks that hemp is bad because it has qualities similar to marijuana. When in fact, it is a very distant cousin of ganja and is not really like wacky-tabacky at all. Industrial hemp can be used in clothing, food/beverages, paper, building materials, plastics, fuel and chemical clean-up. It can help the economy by opening thousands of jobs and bringing in local money and we would not have to import it from other countries anymore. “A change in federal policy to once again allow hemp farming would mean instant job creation, among many other economic and environmental benefits,” says Tom Murphy, the National Outreach Coordinator or Vote Hemp. It would also help out life style because we could save trees and that would help produce more oxygen and help clear smog in the bigger cities. Industrial hemp (from Old English haenep) is a commonly used term for high-growing varieties of the Cannabis plant and its products. Hemp is one of the earliest domesticated plants known dating back to the Neolithic Age in China (around 10,000 BC). The first hemp plantings in America were in Jamestown, Virginia where it was actually mandatory. It used to be used in everything from clipper sails to covers on pioneer …show more content…
If these bills were to be passed would remove restrictions of cultivation of industrial hemp. So far thirty-one states have introduced pro-hemp legislation and nineteen have passed a legislation. Eight of those states have defined industrial hemp and removed barriers to its production. Three states have passed bills to research hemp. Nine states have passed hemp resolutions and six states have passed hemp study bills. The way to avoid confusion of hemp and marijuana is to limit the THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) to 0.2% and 0.3% in the hemp flowers. The THC levels in pot are usually between