Introduction to Industrial Hemp
By: Jason J.
Bowman (March, 2010)
http://treekings.
tk
Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) is one of the oldest cultivated plants in the
world.
For centuries, its fibres have been used to make ropes, sails and
clothing.
Its...
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Introduction to Industrial Hemp
By: Jason J.
Bowman (March, 2010)
http://treekings.
tk
Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) is one of the oldest cultivated plants in the
world.
For centuries, its fibres have been used to make ropes, sails and
clothing.
Its seeds are easily pressed into the most nutritious oil found on
earth, and unseeded flowers contain medicinal properties much like those of a
cure-all.
Cannabis has been widely cultivated around the world, until the
species was banned in North America in the 1930s after intense lobbying from
industrial corporations.
It was banned internationally in 1961 under the United
Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs under similar circumstances.
As the world s oldest and most versatile crop, hemp has the potential to
replace all major non-renewable raw materials.
It s a vast range of end-uses
include nutrition (the most nutritious single food source known), multi-use
fibre for industry and communities, and forestry derived fuel repla
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