Harvesting 10,000 acres of hemp, the official record stated, could replace the fiber equivalent of 41,000 acres of trees. It's at this point that outrage seems the only possible response to the hemp revelations. Outrage and determination to put hemp, kenaf and other papermaking vegetation into big time production as quickly as possible. While family-run hemp farms are saving Canada's remaining forests, a process called Environcore can make up for the increasing shortfall in good timber by using hemp fibers to make construction paneling strong enough to replace plywood and drywall. Hemp can also eliminate the plastics used in making many products, such as synthetic carpets and PVC pipe.
Awareness is power.
It's also more than half the prelude to transformation. It's obvious to more than prospective Earth stewards that extensive hemp cultivation is one obvious North American solution to a host of our worst environmental ills. In 1991 the U.S. government instituted the death penalty for anyone caught growing more than 30,000 cannabis plants. The time for action is now.