These 6 Industries Don’t Want Hemp Legalized

Not everyone is a hemp fan. Especially these major players. These industries don’t want hemp legalized because it stands to threaten their power.
These 6 Industries Don’t Want Hemp Legalized

6. Building Materials

These 6 Industries Don’t Want Hemp Legalized

If the LEGOs made of hemp seemed too childish to get excited about, get ready for a more mature use of hemp. Indeed, the building blocks of our own homes may soon be made of hemp rather than from lumber or other building materials. Called hempcrete, these bricks of hemp form the structures of the homes in one Santa Barbara community.  They’re made from the woody inner core of the hemp plant, then mixed with a lime-based binder.

The result benefits the homeowner because the material is energy-efficient, non-toxic and resistant to mold, insects and fire. Not to mention, it is more sustainable than lumber.

Ending the prohibition on hemp will open up a lot of opportunities to experiment with and perfect utilizing this great resource. Hempcrete has proven itself in Europe where it’s legal. There they have used it as a building material for decades. France has used hempcrete in their office buildings, the UK has demonstrated its strength in a department store construction.

Prince Charles even admires its value as a building material for his own home.

It’s no doubt that hempcrete will make up the infrastructure of many of our cities and the walls of our homes. Of course these industries don’t want hemp legalized.

Loosening restrictions on industrial hemp farming will press the lumber to prove itself up against this innovative material.

Final Hit: These Industries Don’t Want Hemp Legalized

Knowing the limitless possibilities of the hemp plant and its profit potential, it’s not a surprise that these industries don’t want hemp legalized.

They should feel intimidated.

But we as consumers should recognize how they’re working to continue to stifle the ability of us to grow and purchase hemp in our own country. It’s time to end this needless prohibition on such a desired and vital resource. But we’re finally taking steps. Just two weeks ago, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made news bringing forward a bill that will legalize industrial hemp farming.

It’s only a matter of time, and hemp will legally and freely be intertwined in our daily life.

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