Let’s Start Using Hemp – Hemp Facts

French farmers are doing well out of the growing market for hemp fibers, however, British farmers could face 14 years in jail if they followed suit.

Let’s Start Using Hemp – Hemp Facts is an article on hemp and the benefits this plant can provide for Britain, as it has for the French.

Hemp’s history in the service to human culture is as long as it is diverse. The Neolithic “Yang Shao” culture of China (4000 BC) is believed to have used the long fibrous strands on the outside of the cannabis stalk for rope and cloth. According to Professor Hui-Lin Li, an economic botanist at the University of Pennsylvania, cannabis seeds, rich in protein, “were considered, along with millet, rice, barley and soybean, as one of the major grains of ancient China”.

Modern day sees French farmers doing well creating fabric out of hemp, yet it is still illegal in Britain.

This article discusses the reason why and highlights the incredible benefits the use of hemp could have on the British economy, such as in the fiber trade.

An ode to the glorious history of hemp and a push to restore it’s former glory, this is one article you don’t want to miss.

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