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Industrial Hemp is currently grown in Canada and Europe but not in the United States.

Allegedly, hemp is a super-product capable of being made into anything and although not all these uses are cost-effective (who wants to pay ~10x as much for paper). Imagine a technological situation where in an *Energy Crisis the US pours funding into hemp the way it did into solar and wind energy. Keep in mind that hemp already had many known uses by 1970s just not all cost-effective ones. Where would we be now? Would global warming still be an issue? If the POD requires writing off the counterculture (and all the good music that came out of it), that's a price I'm willing to pay.
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