HEMP

Hemp



Hemp

It is the common knowledge of most global citizens that the superimposed, War on Drugs, was, presently is, and will always be a massive failure. Understanding this core fact, we now must intricately explore the multi-faceted opportunities that we, as the new-age global community have to infuse the quickly emerging universal economy. One of the major factors to take into account here, is the blatantly obvious viability of the over 50,000 uses of hemp and hemp derivatives.

Hemp legislation, if taken seriously by the United States federal government, will once again push the United States into the forefront of the world stage. Following the very first federal drug law in 1906, (The Food and Drugs Act), the economy of the United States has suffered needlessly; due to racially bias political ideologies, corporate greed, and government corruption. The re-introduction of effective hemp legislation will help bridge the racial, economic, political, and gender chasm that presently exists on the worldwide scale. First, we are going to briefly examine the history of hemp in the United States.

Then, we are going to focus on a couple of the economy boosting uses of hemp. Lastly, we are going to develop a plan and framework that, if used, will re-establish the United States once again as a global powerhouse. Hemp legislation, if taken economically seriously, has the superior viability to not only advance the United States, but also the global community.

Hemp Legislation and the Global EconomyBeginning with the first president of the United States, George Washington, not only used products made from the hemp plant, but also encouraged its nationwide cultivation as well. President Washington, in, 1794, was quoted as saying, Make the most you can of the Indian-Hemp seed and sow it everywhere." If hemp was not an inherently viable source of food, jobs, and economic empowerment, then why would President Washington make this very straight-forward, blatant assertion? President Abraham Lincolns thoughts on hemp Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

President Thomas Jefferson had this to add about the close relationship between hemp cultivation and national security Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. President John Adams summed up the United States use of hemp with this statement: We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption. Albert Einsteins take on the hemp issue"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this." Henry Ford, (the inventor of the famous Model-T Ford), had this to share concerning hemp production "Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we ...