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Re:McConnell bill would legalize hemp as agricultural product by PeterisP on Thursday March 29, 2018 @04:44AM (#16705502)
Yeah, an acquaintance runs a farm that also has fields of hemp, and it's no miracle - it's used in quite a few industries in preference to other materials, but it's not that dominant. As far as I recall, their harvest was shipped for making cigarette paper and hemp textiles; both of which are interesting but ultimately just niche use cases.
Re:McConnell bill would legalize hemp as agricultural product by code_duck on Thursday March 29, 2018 @08:42AM (#16706508)
For both of those ‘niche’ use cases, paper and cloth, hemp was the dominant material used for many centuries prior to the last century.