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Hemp: a useful, profitable crop, not a drug
Imagine if there was a commercially viable crop that had the following attributes: Grows like a weed on poor soil; grows hardy whether soil is wet or dry; parts of the plant are useful as nutritious food, including cooking oil; has thousands of industrial applications, including furniture; and its high-yield dried stalks can be used as fuel for power generation.
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Around the world farmers are coming to realise the massive potential growing hemp brings with it
 
It exists. It is called hemp and is grown commercially in many countries including Canada, Japan, Australia, nearly all of Europe, India, China and Chile, yet it is illegal to grow in Thailand. Why is this billion-dollar crop not grown here? One reason: Pressure from Uncle Sam, whose stance on hemp stems from the archaic idea that it is a drug. It is not. It only has minuscule traces of THC. A person could smoke a garbage pail full of hemp and only get a headache.

Recently 22 US states passed legislation to legalise hemp farming. So now, what excuse does Thailand have for depriving its farmers from growing this billion-baht crop like dozens of countries worldwide?
The only excuses for Thai legislators are that they're too busy with political posturing to do any governing; are not aware of the issue (perhaps too busy thinking about their golf scores and mia nois); are stuck in old ways of thinking, and think, wrongly, that hemp is a drug; and are overly influenced by incorrect, 70 year-old US laws that dictate Thai legislation regarding illegal substances.

 Thai legislators, it's time to wake up and smell the hemp nut cereal which, by the way, is not only delicious, but is a hundred times more nutritious than the watery rice most Thais eat for breakfast. Give Thai farmers a break, or at least give them an option for making better money on marginal land. Allow Thai farmers to join the worldwide community of farmers who are profiting from hemp.

KEN ALBERTSEN

http://www.nationmultimedia.com
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