Why outlawing cannabis was a HUGE mistake



We’ve used cannabis for tens of thousands of years. Not just to get high but also to make textiles, paper, medicine and much more. We then outlawed it for decades – only to realize the stuff is pretty good at helping fight climate change. So get ready for the cannabis comeback.

Reporter: Serdar Vardar 
Camera: Serdar Vardar 
Video Editor: David Jacobi 
Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk , Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann & Kiyo Dörrer

We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

#PlanetA #Cannabis #IndustrialHemp

Read more:
Hemp and sustainable agriculture:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-8778-5_1

Challenges of revitalizing hemp:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138517301772

Hemp as a sustainable raw material: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402200041X

A potted history of Cannabis:
https://www.nature.com/articles/525s10a

Chapters:  
00:00 Intro 
00:52 The forgotten crop
04:08 Buildings made from hemp
07:03 Better paper?
08:00 Hemp and the textile industry
10:12 What holds us back
12:12 What lies ahead
13:35 Outro

Special thanks for background interviews to:
Ethan Russo
Daniel Piomelli
Tony DeVeyra
Michael Bieder
Don Langlois
Robert C. Pearce
John Fike
Benjamin Cassou
Francesco Mirizzi

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