The Hemp Revolution [Youtube]

There are several reasons for this:

Most countries won't import the resource due to harsh drug laws, even if the fiber being exported comes from male sativa that have been chemically modified to yield extremely small amounts of THC (You'd have to smoke an entire bail to get high). It's only legal to widely grow in Saskatchewan, and only now because the farmers basically told Harper to go **** himself. Even so, the amount grown is actually fairly small when you compare how many hectares of land are used for the production of hemp versus other resources like corn and wheat.

The poor reputation of hemp and what people relate it to are an instant turn-off for almost any wealthy investor, the initial responses to this thread are a good example of why this is; so, as I'm sure you could guess (with everything in the former paragraph taken into account), it's almost impossible to get any initial start-up funding for a business that wants to make hemp products, save for a few things like clothes and rope.

Marijuana may be British Columbia's second largest export, but that export mainly deals with criminal organizations that are working towards getting people high rather than working towards producing textiles, oil and food. These organizations focus on growing female indica plants which are often crossed with a weak strain of sativa to increase the size of their harvests, these plants almost always yield a high amount of THC.

The real problem however; is the oil and mining companies who continuously work against the production of hemp because it will decrease their control over the energy and mineral resource sectors of any given nation.

Hemp can be used to produce and improve so many things, from steel and concrete to oil and butter, it would be folly of the human race not to take advantage of it's obvious benefits; yet we still are not doing so. One day however; one day I deduce will be soon given the current state of the world, hemp will see the global market, and that's when it's revolution will be realized.

Drugs are bad mkay.

Inb4 lock of thread.


Oh and Say what!:

That killed me.

One hour and 12 minutes on a youtube video about marijuana posted by some newfag I don't give two shits about?

>You think it's about drugs.

Thank you for displaying your ignorance and inability to quickly scan a thread, internet tough guy.