From: htoaster@yabbs
To: pbj@yabbs
Subject: re: consumption
Date: Tue Jul 26 13:45:36 1994

In message re: consumption, pbj said:
> the amount of paper made from one acre of renewable( meaning it can be 
> readily replanted) hemp is equal to the amount of paper made from 4 acres 
> of nonrenewable(meaning the opposite of renewable) timber.....

and it doesn't require any pesticides to grow it, like cotton, which gets
half of the pesticdes used in our country (according to the hemp faq, which
is probably slightly biased, but the figure is still probably up there)...

alex