The Thai cabinet agreed to promote the
growing of hemp as a new economic plant for Thailand.
Another country takes a positive step forward in creating new rural jobs utilizing the amazing hemp plant. It’s a non-drug crop yet the US government still bans it’s growing in America. How many more years before the US government jumps on the hemp bandwagon?
The cabinet on Tuesday agreed to set up a committee to promote growing of hemp as a new economic plant on high land, as proposed by the National Economic and Social Development Board, deputy government spokesman Vachara Kannikar said.
Mr Vachara said the NESDB submitted a proposal for planting and growing hemp on high land from 2009-2013 to the cabinet. The plant was already being grown by various royal projects aimed at generating supplementary income for farmers.
The NESDB had concluded that hemp can be used to produce textiles, food, furniture, health products, and cosmetics.
However, there were limitations on growing hemp since it is categorised as a No 5 narcotic plant in the form of marijuana.
Therefore, farmers have to grow it secretly, despite the fact that hemp is an economic plant.
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It’s good to know that Hemp farming is now legalized in some countries and now in Thailand. Hemp is not really marijuana. A plant cultivated for marijuana has a 3 to 15 percent THC content or more, while industrial hemp generally contains one percent or less. And even studies show that it is the most nutritionally complete food source in the world. I think there’s no reason why we shouldn’t grow hemp.
I don’t believe that Hemp has the same composition as marijuana. I’ve been researching about hemp and I know for a fact that hemp contains only minute (less than 1%) amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. If one were to roll leaves from an industrial hemp plant into a cigarette and smoke them, no euphoric effects would be experienced even if a thousand hemp cigarettes were smoked. So I’m glad that Hemp farming is now being legalized.