Remove the barriers to industrial hemp

Sep 14, 2018 Letters

Dear Editor
Industrial Hemp is set to be huge economic driver in the not so distant future and is estimated could be developed into US $5 billion dollars a year market if the loosening up of the Laws is swiftly done by President David Granger.
What industrial Hemp can do and will do is significant, but the fact is that it still remains illegal.
The uses of industrial hemp are vast and impressive and also has benefits for the soil in which is grown.
Hemp is a plant that develops a real large root system and so it leaves lots of organic biomass that is from decaying roots.
Industrial hemp is rising in popularity, the number of farmers and potential hemp farmers looking to grow this crop has greatly increased.
The real money is going to be in industrial hemp and once folks realize how profitable hemp can be , it won’t be long before you’d start seeing massive protest and the government will no longer be able to sweep hemp farming under the rug and attempt to stall progress with the establishment of an industrial hemp industry in Guyana.
Guyanese Farmers and manufactures are looking forward to capitalizing a new way of life and a new generation of wealth.
As an industrial crop it’s quiet impressive for one acre of hemp produce four times more paper than one acre of trees, hemp fiber is ten times stronger than cotton and can be use to make clothing and doesn’t require nearly as much in the way of pesticide as cotton.
Hemp can serve as a substitute for wood in building materials, not only it is stronger than wood, but is cheaper to produce.
Industrial Hemp can be grown anywhere in Guyana and requires only moderate work.
We of the East Ruimveldt Hemp Farmers Association call on President Granger to swiftly remove the barriers for hemp is not marijuana, although they are both varieties of the cannabis Sativa Plant. Same Plant Family Lineage, and very different chemical makeup.
Hemp has the potential to provide a cash crop for Guyana’s farmers with broad commercial applications that will enhance the economic, diversity and stability of our Nation’s agricultural economy.

George Paton

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