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MisterSmeargle wrote:

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Hemp is possibly one of the most versatile plants in the world, and most certainly one of the most versatile crops.

Hemp is the only food source in the world with the perfect ratio of Omega-3 to Omega-6 and contains every fatty and amino acid include the nine essential ones that the body is incapable of producing. It also contains many of the minerals necessary to sustain life, magnesium, calcium, potassium, phosphorus and iron to name a few. It is also high in complex carbohydrate.

It can be processed into more substitute foods than soya, it has many other functions. Its oil has medicinal properties, being a powerful anti-inflammant and has been known to aid curing cancer. It can also be mixed with water and limestone to produce hempcrete, which is twice as strong and half as light as concrete. Hemp can additionally be woven into a cloth that becomes softer the longer it is worn, without being worn out.

Even before all this, hemp is highly useful. It can grow in almost any climate, from frosty Russia, to searing Brazil, to balmy Jamaica, to dull Ireland. It has a growth cycle far, far shorter than most plants and yields, at optimum, 10, 000 tonnes per hectare. Hemp, while growing, sheds it leaves regularly, replenishing the soil while using little of what it is taking and providing humus. The more you grow hemp, the better the soil becomes, meaning you don't ever have to leave hemp fields lie fallow.

The leaves of some hemp varieties (known to the general populus as marijuana or cannabis) also have opiate properties and, when rolled without nicotine, can provide effective pain relief without any possibility of addiction.

In 100 years, for every 250, 000 people who died of smoking cigarettes, 2, 500 died of alcohol poisoning. For every 2, 500 people who died of alcohol poisoning, 0 died from smoking marijuana.