Why Not Use Hemp to Reverse the Greenhouse Effect & Save the World?
In early, 1989, Jack Herer and Maria Farrow put this question to Steve Rawlings, the highest ranking officer in the U.S. Department of Agruculture (who was in charge of reversing the Greenhouse Effect), at the USDA world research facility in Beltsville, Maryland. First, we introduced ourselves and told him we were writing for Green political party newspapers. Then we asked Rawlings, “If you could have any choice, what would be the ideal way to stop or reverse the Greenhouse Effect?” He said, “Stop cutting down trees and stop using fossil fuels.” “Well, why don’t we?” “There’s no viable substitute for wood for paper, or for fossil fuels.” “Why don’t we use an annual plant for paper and for fossil fuels?” “Well, that would be ideal,” he agreed. “Unfortunately, there is nothing you can use that could produce enough materials.” “Well, what would you say if there was such a plant that could substitute for all wood pulp paper, all fossil fuels, would make kmost of our fibers naturally, make
