Ben van Kerkwyk

You can make clothes with it.

Hemp oil, hemp seeds, not only are they good for you, they contain all the amino acids.

It's a superior protein source.

It's like hemp protein powder is fantastic for you.

It's like really good stuff in so many different ways.

And they put the kibosh on that in the 1930s.

And that, 90 fucking years later, is still this anchor around our necks that we're carrying.

One asshole.

One asshole in the 1930s who didn't want to compete with hemp and had this incredible power because he owned the newspapers.

Yeah.

He started this all.

You ever seen that article?

Pull up that article, Hemp, the New Billion Dollar Crop, because it's wild to watch.

Yeah.

Because this machine, this decorticator, before that, it was brutal back-breaking work to take the hemp fiber and break it down because it's such a durable plant.

If you ever pick up a hemp stalk, a hemp stalk that would ... This is a mammoth tusk, but ...

This is heavy.

But if you had a hemp stalk that was this size, it would be incredibly light like balsa wood, but hard like oak.

It's like an alien plant.

Yeah, it sounds amazing.