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Given the amount of Cannabis strains available there is an appropriate strain for almost any ailment physical ailment. The pharmaceutical industry is looking at an 80% market loss to medicinal cannabis legalization. The only sector Big Pharma won’t lose is antibiotics but given recent discoveries an antibiotic can be manufactured from cannabis. In fact it has hit the holy grail of antibiotics and has been shown to combat MRSA. But here is the funny thing, big pharma has enough money as well as enough botanical knowledge (a lot medicines are made from plants) to produce possibly superior strains to current popular medicinal strains.

In addition to that Big Cotton does a lot of lobbying to keep industrial hemp outlawed. Hemp is cheaper, more durable and easier to grow and process than cotton. But it also serves hundreds of other purposes, everything from organic plastics, biofuels, and even foods ( cannabis seeds are high in protein and other nutrients).
In fact industrial hemp can be used to replace almost any product made out of Timber, petroleum, and cotton. Until 1883, more than 75% of the world’s paper was made with hemp fiber. And Lotus ( yes the exotic car company Lotus) made a Lotus Elise out of hemp!

Legalization of Recreational and Medicinal cannabis alone will bring in over 10 billion dollars TO CALIFORNIA ALONE. Growing high biomass crops like hemp on fields which the government now pays farmers $26 billion per year to keep fallow would replace what we are now importing at a cost of $100 billion per year. That is ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS OF INCOME PER YEAR FROM INDUSTRIAL HEMP ALONE. In 20 years we can have almost all of our war and “spending bill” related debts eliminated.

centrustparadigm.org/articles/bennett_hemp.html

hemporganic.com/whyhemp.html