Vermont definitely could benefit from industrial hemp's legalization. If Vermont's agricultural and dairy farmers would turn to industrial hemp as their main asset, the farmers could quadruple their agricultural income. These are just a few of the ways that industrial hemp can be utilized. Mr. Paul . Hemp can be used to improve so many of the products that we use today.
Hemp fiber needs little more than nitrogen to grow.
Even here in Vermont hemp and other cannabis plants grow wild in ditches and forests. In fact, Australia survived two 19th century famines on the seeds and leaves of industrial hemp alone. Mr. Fillion . Many officials believe that legalizing hemp would lead to the legalization of marijuana and eventually even harder drugs such as cocaine and heroin. There is no basis whatever for these assumptions.