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Hemp - History & Health
Hemp-Human History & Health
HempLife Blog Series: Hemp - History & Health
The history of the relationship between hemp and humans is as long as history itself and is equally fascinating. In fact the relationship is so long, that hemp and humans have some matching chemistry; our human endo-cannabinoids can be replaced with hemp/cannabis cannabinoids, which work at the cellular level turning on and off cell receptors. This can have profound medicinal health benefits for a lot of different ailments. Also, hemp seeds magically contain 18 amino acid proteins we humans can readily utilize; and hemp seeds also have a perfect balance of omegas 3, 6 & 9 fatty acids, making them super nutritious.
In this blog series we will be exploring this amazing hemp-human relationship and discover just how important hemp has been to us humans throughout the ages. We will also look into the major consequences we are now suffering due to hemp prohibition starting in the 1930's where hemp stopped being our nature-based source material for manufacturing products and we switched to man-made petroleum to make products. After 80 years of petroleum and plastic, and the very cheap cost to produce produces made from plastic, which, now-a-days it seems that everything is made from it, we will explore the problem with a supply & demand system of economics that does not consider the environmental impacts of plastic production, which we will see.....makes plastic astronomically more expensive and the enemy of nature, reducing the function of nature itself, and as we continue to reduce the function of nature, we may be threating our own survival.
Since hemp began it's industrial return to the western world a few years ago, people have become more and more interested in the history of hemp, as it pertains to human history. It is a fascinating and entriging topic because the history of human civilization has been, at least to some degree, manifest due to the amazing uses hemp plants offer. Some historians argue that hemp is a major contributer to the evolution of civilization. Which makes the topic all the more interesting when you consider the prohibition of hemp in the western world over the last 100 years.
