Hemp is a strain of the Cannabis Sativa L. plant.  There are thousands of other ways that the seeds, stalks, flowers and oils of this plant can be put to good use.  Hemp is used for textiles, paper, food, personal care products,building material and as a source of bio-fuels.  It can be grown with little or no toxic chemical fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides.  Fertilizer can be used on this crop, but no chemicals can be sprayed after the crop is up.  From hemp apparel and accessories to home furnishings and hemp seed-oil cosmetics,hemp is an eco-lifestyle dream.

 

   Hemp can be grown as a dual crop (seed & fiber) or for the fiber alone.  If grown for dual crop, there is a multitude of uses for the oil, seed and cake.  The fiber becomes secondary and is used for car panels, insulation and many more uses.  If grown the fiber alone, the end product is a cottonized fiber used in the textile industry.

 

 

   Hemp oils and seeds are two of the best sources of essential fatty acids, which are vital to the maintenance of the body's immune system.  Hemp seed is also nature's most complete source of protein.  Some scientists claim that the nutritive properties of hemp seeds and oil have huge healing potential.  Hemp oil is the only oil that penetrates all levels of the skin.  It is one of the most balanced oils available.

 

 

   It is the abbreviation for delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the major psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.

 

 

   No!  What you would get is a big headache.  With the regulated percent of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, THC, in industrial hemp is .3 percent, as opposed to 2 percent or higher in most forms of marijuana.

 

 

     Hemp cannot be commercially grown in the United States because it is erroneously confounded with marijuana.  The United States permits trade in nonviable hemp seed,oil, and fiber, it is the only major industrialized nation that prohibits the growing and processing of hemp.