Hemp has the potential to be used in more than 25,000 products, including fibers, textiles, paper and construction and insulation materials, food and even fuel. However, because government is the antithesis to freedom, industrial hemp was previously banned nationwide since 1937 ostensibly due to the plant’s similarities to marijuana. Many have speculated that this move was also due to the fact that cannabis is in direct competition with the pharmaceutical industry by providing far safer alternative treatments as well as directly competing with the petrochemical industry. However, all this changed in December 2018 with the passage of the Agriculture Improvement act of 2018, legalizing industrial hemp on a national scale.
It’s a moot point because we know the market is artificial, but what slays me is that the price of lumber climbs despite the means of production: GMO forests which theoretically expedite growth and theoretically “cut” cost, introduction of mechanical implements to assuage the human capital used and thus “cut”costs… Instead we have a cheapening of quality and a fattening of cost. Well played, gubmint.
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I agree. Costs are always cut by eliminating the labor component.
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