cotton v 19
i read some news that the price of cotton will be going up due to higher demand. strangely, most countries don't make clothes out of cotton. they make it out of hemp. why? it's not as high quality. but you get more product for less resources. like land water fertilizer and labor. with a little "modern" science we could husband superior strains. with a little genetic engineering we could do it a lot faster. so why don't we? well, cops can't tell the difference between hemp and marijuana. the plants are closely related. the difference is that hemp doesn't have the hallucinogens prized by stoners everywhere. kind of a bummer that prop 19 failed. legalize marijuana and we can grow hemp as a cash crop. and your kid's clothes would take a smaller bite out of your budget.