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Speaker 1: Welcome to Brainstuff from house stuff Works dot com where

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Speaker 1: smart happens. Hi Am Marshall Brain with today's question, how

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Speaker 1: does hamp work? When most people think about fibers for cloth,

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Speaker 1: what they think about is things like cotton or wool.

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Speaker 1: With cotton and wool, you can comb them out, spin

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Speaker 1: them and create thread very easily. This thread is great

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Speaker 1: for making cloth that's soft to the skin, but it's

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Speaker 1: not very strong. Hamp, on the other hand, is a

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Speaker 1: lot like flax and flaxes where linning comes from. In

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Speaker 1: both hemp and flax, the fibers are in the stock

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Speaker 1: of the plant. The fibers are something like the threads

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Speaker 1: you see in a stock of celery. Their long, stringy

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Speaker 1: and tough to get at. The fibers you comb them

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Speaker 1: out of the woody part of the dried stock. The

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Speaker 1: fibers tend to be coarser than cotton or wool. But

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Speaker 1: they are very strong. This strength makes hemp great for

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Speaker 1: things like rope. The reason why hemp shows up in

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Speaker 1: organic magazines and catalogs is because it's very friendly to

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Speaker 1: the environment. For example, environmentally conscious people like these aspects

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Speaker 1: of hemp. First, cotton raised in the United States requires

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Speaker 1: millions of pounds of pesticides of fertilizers. It's a very

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Speaker 1: intensive crop that takes a lot out of land. Bugs

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Speaker 1: like bowl weevils love cotton, and they must be killed

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Speaker 1: with insecticides. Hemp, on the other hand, is a weed.

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Speaker 1: You can grow hemp using much less fertilizer and pesticide. Second,

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Speaker 1: hemp fibers can be used in many different ways. With hemp.

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Speaker 1: You can make cloth, paper, cardboard, fiber board, and lots

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Speaker 1: of other stuff. By using hemp for paper and construction materials,

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Speaker 1: pressure is removed from forests. Hemp also grows much faster

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Speaker 1: and more densely than trees do. The problem with hemp

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Speaker 1: is that the hemp plant is also known as the

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Speaker 1: cannabis plant, which is also known as the marijuana plant.

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Speaker 1: This connection to marijuana is what makes hemp such a

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Speaker 1: hot issue in the United States. There are varieties of

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Speaker 1: fiber hemp that eliminate the drug component of the plant

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Speaker 1: to a large degree, But the concern is that it

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Speaker 1: would be very easy to hide drug plants in a

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Speaker 1: crop of fiber plants. So at the moment, hemp production

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Speaker 1: in the United States is stalled and it's a source

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