I have found Soybean fabric. Bamboo Fabric. Organic cotton & wools Plus Hemp fabric. The Bamboo & Hemp are reportedly Inexpensive to grow in comparison to cotton & wool so WHY are they so expensive to buy?
That brought a little research on my end to understand a bit more of their backgrounds and now I have just another reason to be angered by greedy self interest government officials. I would LOVE to grow Hemp and make my own ropes, fabric,etc but NOOO. Instead all these foreign countries are reaping the benefits of our U.S government deciphering the 2 and claiming there is no market, so why waste tax dollars on legalizing the growing of Hemp? What I can not find is WHEN did it become illegal and why? {be sure to visit the Facts section below, to decipher the difference of the 2}.
During World War II, domestic hemp production became crucial when the Japanese cut off Asian supplies to the U.S. American farmers who grew hemp were even exempt from military duty. A 1942 U.S. Department of Agriculture film called "Hemp For Victory" extolled the agricultural might of hemp and called for hundreds of thousands of acres to be planted for the war effort.
US Department of Agriculture poster published in 1942 for the Hemp Production Board. That poster was part of the successful "Hemp for Victory" program in the all-out effort to win World War II. Throughout the war thousands of Hemp for Victory posters hung in Grange halls, post offices, and USDA Extension offices all across the Midwest.
Surely no member of the vegetable kingdom has ever been more misunderstood than hemp. For too many years, emotion-not reason-has guided our policy toward this crop. And nowhere have emotions run hotter than in the debate over the distinction between industrial hemp and marijuana.
The history of federal drug laws clearly shows that at one time the U.S. government understood and accepted the distinction between hemp and marijuana.
FACTS:The THC levels in Industrial Hemp are so low that no one could get high from smoking it. Moreover, hemp contains a relatively high percentage of another cannabinoid, CBD, that actually blocks the marijuana high. Hemp, it turns out, is not only not marijuana; it could be called "anti-marijuana".
Industrial Hemp is grown quite differently from marijuana. Moreover, it is harvested at a different time than marijuana. Finally, cross-pollination between hemp plants and marijuana plants would significantly reduce the potency of the marijuana plant.
It is the current refusal of the DEA and ONDCP to distinguish between an agricultural crop and a drug crop that is sending the wrong message to children.
The market for Industrial Hemp products is growing rapidly. But even if it were not, when has a crop ever been outlawed simply because government agencies thought it would be unprofitable to grow?
How nice would it be if only our Government would recognize how much of Hemp products are IMPORTED to our country due to the great demand of it's Earth {& potentially wallet} friendly uses.
Instead we continue to import from other countries due to the greed/neglect/misunderstanding of our Government. HEMP IS NOT A DRUG and IS NOT the same use as MARIJUANA!
Anger moment over...for now.
Sweeter Dreams,
~Tammie
