I never use youtube as a source – repeat never have and never will. I have read some of the old articles about commercial hemp over the years.

To make any crop which comes ‘in bulk’ viable the rules change from Aunt Mary growing a few tomatoes in the back yard. Pesticides will follow the bug infestations which come when any crop becomes concentrated. Make them natural if possible but pest controls are required.

Poor quality soil usage is a plus but use of hillsides where mechanized equipment can’t move is out.

Getting a new material to market and into use is not so easy as people would like to believe.

As to drugs – I fully support the Singapore and Malaysia stance for dealers – hang em high! The US should adopt the same policy so forget the bong crap.

Whenever we want a lot of one thing, all of the things that are less efficient than that one thing go by the wayside. (think how many varieties of apple were once grown in the US 100 years ago, compared to now…because the consumer wants certain varieties, and the farmers want to sell what they grow, so they grow what will be bought in the grocery) … same thing will happen with hemp. One strain will prove to me more efficient than the others, and more desirable, therefore the other sub varieties will dwindle.

Mass marketing/mass consuming is the underlying disease; large carbon footprints are just the symptom.