Like you, I’d do anything to protect my children.
Imagine if one crop could provide top-quality food, fibre, medicine, fuel, oil, paint, chemicals and housing. Imagine if it was sustainable and renewable.
Imagine if, after 28,000 years of use, this crop was unethically removed from the market on fraudulent evidence, and a $75,000 tax put on all farmers and doctors who touched the plant.
Hemp is more important than you may know. It can help us heal our ecosystems, improve health care, build economic sovereignty, tackle climate change and ensure the survival of our children. It’s much more important than you may think. There’s a lot of talk about billions of dollars in the hemp industry, but, really, it’s trillions.
Love, kindness and empathy are key to us as social animals, yet our society is built on a disastrous petro-chemical foundation. We should look at switching to something more sustainable. Life is precious. Let's not make it worse for each other, we need to reconfigure the fuels of our economy if we are to survive.
As history shows us, a $75,000 tax on petro chemicals should do it. It certainly got rid of hemp! But seriously, we need a sustainable carbohydrate-based system that supports life, not dooms it. The petro-chemical foundation is not viable, a hemp foundation is needed.
China is building one, let’s not miss out. There’s no time for tech dreams, it’s time to get real. (Tadhg Stopford)
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