Reply #11: I talk about it a lot

[Warpy]

and the thread sinks like a stone.

Hemp oil can be substituted for petroleum in many applications, like making plastics and other polymers. It is 100% renewable.

Hemp pulp is much more economical for making paper than wood pulp is since crops are produced every year instead of every 15 years.

Hemp can be used for clothing (although my spinning has been less than successful; I've produced some very nice twine instead of yarn) and the crop is less injurious to the soil than yearly cotton crops are.

Hemp fields will actually reduce the amount grown for drugs because of cross pollination. Seeds saved over will be contaminated by hemp pollen and the next year's crop won't be particularly smokeable. That should make the drug warriors absolutely ecstatic. Pot will have to be grown indoors for seed.

That this useful crop is still illegal in this country would be farcical if it weren't so injurious on so many levels.