What You Can Get From Supporting Industrial Hemp Pilot Program

By Aimee Schwartz


Growing plants is not illegal. After all, the plants technically do not do anything bad to people. It is people that makes bad things out of plants. Plants that become the base of these bad things, for example illegal drugs, are properly monitored by the government so that it does not become a problem to society.

A perfect example of that would be the cannabis plant. The cannabis plant, when grown to help the economy, is not a bad thing. In fact, there is now a movement for this plant to be grown for the sake of helping the economy progress further. Such movement is jumpstarted with the industrial hemp Pennsylvania pilot program. Here are the benefits you can enjoy when you support this movement.

First, you can count on this plan to produce clothing. Clothing is one of the essentials of life. Through the said plant, you can get a quality raw material that can be used to create textiles. Even in the past, the said raw material has been used by people to create the textiles where durable clothing were derived from.

This can also be used to create food and beverages. You can extract oil from the seeds of this plant, especially since one-third of the seed is made up of the oil. The oil is edible and nutritious, with essential fatty acids. Not only the oil which can be used for food and dietary supplement, you can also use the said plant to brew beer, ferment wine, and distill alcoholic beverages.

You can make paper from this plant too. Most of the existing plants these days can be used as a source of pulp to make paper. The advantage of using this plant against the others would be that it is quickly renewable and sustainable. With this source, there is no more need for you to spend money on expensive wood pulp.

Building supplies. You might find it an eye-opener for you to know that this particular plant can also provide building supplies. The building supplies that you can get from this particular plant varies and are very durable as well. Examples of those building supplies would be materials made for insulation, fiberboards, and pressboards.

Plastics can also be processed from this plant. You may count on this plant to become a viable feedstock for the plastic production. The plastic produced from this plant has already been proven durable even from before as a car prototype made from this plastic has already been made. Not only cars, products like shower curtain liners, DVD or CD cases, and the likes can use this too.

Just like any other vegetable oil, you may take the oil out of the seed of this plant and process it into biodiesel. The technology in existence today should allow for the processing of the biodiesel from this plant. Pick out the right parts of the said plant and you can make the biodiesel.

Chemical cleanup is also possible with the said plant. One of the intriguing uses of this plant is actually to clean up any soil contamination. You can see potential in this plant regarding clean up for lands contaminated by harmful elements like fly ash, sewage sludge, and many heavy metals.




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