Cannabis can be used to make many different items, such as: Clothing, food, the oils from the seeds can be made into paint or be used for cooking.
Housing< of the Cannabis plant's total weight is made up of the 'hurd' or woody inner core. This part of the plant is THC free and can be used in housing construction. The silica leached from soil by the plant combined with unslaked lime (calcium oxide) forms a chemical bond similar to cement which is both fire and waterproof.>
Fuel: Biofuel can be made from the biomass of hemp. One fuel would be biodiesel because of the oils in the seeds and stalk of the hemp, another would be bioalcohol from the fibrous stalksHemp may be grown also for food (the seed) but in the UK cultivation licences are not available for this purpose. Within Defra (the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) hemp is treated as purely a non-food crop, despite the fact that seed can and does appear on the UK market as a perfectly legal food product.
In Canada, hemp seed food products are common and range from cereals to frozen waffles. Many companies produce value added hemp seed items that include the oils of the seed, whole hemp grain (which is sterilized as per international law), hulled hemp seed (the whole seed without the mineral rich outer shell), hemp flour, hemp cake (a by-product of pressing the seed for oil) and hemp protein powder.
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