I have tried researching this but have been bogged down by the “cures cancer!! and everything else” crap. I am after facts and not woo please. Any proven uses will do. Thank you.
Dravet Syndrome. I don’t believe there’s been any studies but I think there’s enough anecdotal evidence to warrant serious studies.
I’ve been using it for cooking recently instead of olive oil. This is what I use.
Is the price competitive with olive oil?
Squeaky hemp?
It’s good forsoaps.
I didn’t look at it too closely when I bought it, but looking at the Sainsbury’s site now it looks to be about twice the price of mid-range extra virgin. The hemp is £1.20/100ml, and the Filippo Berio is £0.60/100ml. The most expensive stuff there is Intense Luxury Organic at £2.20/100ml.
Extracting money from hippies wallets.
A new feedstock for biodiesel.
https://www.google.com/search?q=hemp+oil+biodiesel&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb
To generalize the thread, if I may: What unique or significant value do “hemp” products and byproducts have over existing equivalents? Other than those related to ingested THC, what value does hemp have as a crop that makes it worth re-instituting in large scale?
Like the OP, I find that nearly all of the hemp mania of the last couple of decades has been driven by covert or not-so-covert marijuana legalization goals. Okay, we’re on the verge of widely legalized or at least decriminalized weed; is there any real remaining value to the “hemp industry” arguments? It’s long since been replaced for its original core need, rope.
Wiki on hemp. There’s a large section detailing a number of uses. I have no idea if the products are better than existing non-hemp products.
Interesting use: composite panels for automobiles.
There is no question that hemp is a plant with many components that can be used productively. However, like G.W. Carver’s ten thousand uses for peanuts, the vast number seem to fall somewhere between curiosity and not-very-useful. Other than THC, it doesn’t seem to me that hemp’s fiber, oil, leaves, etc. are any better than equivalents from sources developed since the 1930s, and in many cases, it seems like hemp would have fallen out of favor against more modern products and processing.
Besides the hemp-as-maryjane-stalking-horse, there seems to be a lot of “ancient Chinese wisdom” sort of thinking - because hemp was a big crop with a number of uses up through the 1920s-30s, it must be equally useful now.
Still would like to hear input from someone who can look at that list and point out examples where hemp is irreplaceable, superior to other options and usefully/economically advantageous. To rephrase the question, I am not interested in what hemp can or could be used for - conceded, it’s many dozens of things at least - but what purposes hemp is truly superior for.
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Short answer - no.