The History of Hemp

Louis O’Neill
6 min readMar 23, 2020

Plastic, oil, paper, food, fuel, and clothing.

No, that isn’t a shopping list, it’s just a handful of the long list of products that can be made from the versatile hemp plant.

Increasingly, people are waking up to the plentiful benefits of the hemp plant and the ways in which it may be used for our benefit. Hemp is far from a new discovery. In fact, estimates show that humans have been using it for…

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Louis O’Neill

Hello! My name is Louis. I write about the growing cannabis industry, politics, religion, and philosophy. Co-founder of Australians.news