Canada's hemp acres on the rise

[SHRED]

Meanwhile the USA is getting left in the dust on the hemp industry/farming front.

Based on what?
Based on some stereotypical "hippie" and "pot" bullshit perpetrated by the braindead in this country.

:crazy:

We had some very strong movement on the food side of the business," she added, noting both exports of processed hemp seed and domestic demand were strengthening.
As a result, she said, the area seeded to hemp across the country was expected to increase from about 14,000 acres in 2009, to 25,000 acres this spring.

http://www.country-guide.ca/West/issues/ISArticle.asp?aid=1000366668&PC=FBC&issue=04072010

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I believe also that the companies that make artificial fibers

are opposed to hemp being used.

:shrug:

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Some natural fiber growers (cotton) probably also don't like it, nor might the forestry industry.

[DeSwiss]

2. K&R n/t

[givemebackmycountry]

4. Hemp would be the death-knell for many HUGE corporations...

All of our paper products could me made from hemp.
Think about the reams of paper in your office and then think nationwide.
No more cotton.
Own a article of hemp clothing?
They last DECADES.
We could run our cars on this shit with a little bit of ingenuity.
Goodbye Exxon Mobile.
It's a good food source, healthy and safe.
Hemp has been called a "miracle" plant.

It must be stopped at all costs.
And sadly, it will.

[OnlinePoker]

5. Up this year but down from 48,000 acres in 2006.

It's been an up and down industry.

http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/econ9631

[Ready4Change]

6. My grandfather grew hemp during WW2.

Stopped growing it when the war ended and shifted to other, more profitable crops.

But the hemp was like a weed. It had taken root along the edges of his fields, and since it wasn't affecting his cash crops, he ignored it.

However, every year or two, kids from a nearby high school would notice it, come out at night and try to get high smoking it. He'd hear noises late at night, go out to investigate, and find these kids green and sick, load them in his truck and drive them to their various homes. He'd laugh and laugh at those dumb kids.

You get sick long before you get high from that stuff. Yet still the anti-drug nut jobs rant and rave over this stuff. They are just as dumb as the kids trying to get high off of it.

[JohnWxy]

7. isn't hemp well adapted to semi-arid conditions?