First of all, there’s no question that a market exists. But despite the positive buzz it’s getting, its current illegality means there is no established infrastructure in this country to handle the crop. Over the years we’ve seen many highly touted “miracle” crops fail to produce their promised returns because the processing plants and market structures didn’t materialize.
Don’t you think that in a sliding economy and rising unemployment that investors would take advantage of plunging real estate costs and available labor to build those plants, especially if there is a huge demand for hemp products? I know capital is hard to come by, but in how many depressed farming and lumber towns are there mills and processing plants that used to be used for timber and other crops that could be easily converted for hemp production? Are you telling me the country that in World War II could have General Motors turn on a dime and convert 100% of its automaking capabilities into tank and armament production can’t turn its deprived farmers and manufacturers onto hemp?
Our biggest concern is that hemp is so easy to grow and so hardy that once established it’s nearly impossible to control or completely eradicate. Ask those farmers in the Midwest who, with considerable help from state and federal drug police, have been trying for nearly 70 years to get rid of the hemp that grows wild in their ditches and fence rows.
Because of that, we would be reluctant to grow hemp without some assurance it won’t have a lasting and irreversible impact on other crops already grown profitably in the West.
I think that’s the first time I’ve encountered resistance to industrial hemp because it grows too well.
By the way, according to US government statistics, 97%-99% of the marijuana eradicated by your tax dollars and those helicopters is that feral ditchweed hemp that is of no drug value whatsoever. That is, the statistics we have up through 2006. After that, the government decided to stop publishing how much ditchweed we are paying federal law enforcement officials to rip up. I guess that’s one way to deal with an enormously embarrassing statistic: just stop reporting it.
the only problem with this is that when farmers grow industrial hemp for industrial purposes such as rope, clothing, and paper the farmers do not have to wait until the hemp plants make seeds, they harvest them when they stop growing and the plants stop growing before they make seeds.
so as long as they planted seeds every year and didn’t let the plants make seeds the plants wouldn’t come back next year.I suppose a farmer would probably let some of the plants seed so they could have them for next year, but it wouldn’t be like they just leave the plants there they would probably pull the plants up with the seeds on them instead of letting them just fall off and growing wear ever, also during world war 2 a lot of farms had hemp on them that were growing but it didn’t take them that long to get rid of it after it became illegal.
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