Did the Government Give Industrial Hemp a Pass to Clean Up Radiation in the States?
Christina Sarich
Published: Friday 14 February 2014
Hemp
has numerous uses and could replace many crops that require heavy
irrigation and pesticides, but the most interesting fact about hemp is
that it “eats” radiation.
Activists have been shouting they want an end to GMO foods for more than a decade now, and
Cannabis Sattiva L.
supporters have been at it for even longer, so why has the US
government finally given farmers the right to legally grow industrial
hemp, the non-hallucinatory, sister plant of medical marijuana?
It
is safe to say that industrialized hemp should have been legalized
years ago. With THC levels so low, you would have to smoke more of it
than Snoop Dogg to get ‘high’ – and that’s a lot of
Cannabis,
it is ridiculous that it was classified as a drug at all. It has
numerous uses and could replace many crops that require heavy irrigation
and pesticides, like cotton, for example. Here’s the most interesting
fact though –
hemp plants ‘eat’ radiation.
When
the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Reactor 4 accident caused severe
radioactive contamination in 1986, families within a 30-kilometer area
of the site had to be evacuated.
Radioactive contamination was later found at 100 kilometers from the accident site, and Fukushima radiation levels are still to be determined, with the Japanese government
planning on dumping their overflowing radiated water tanks into the Pacific as we speak.
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