In August of 2024, an article about tobacco defined it as a former cash crop in the Appalachian Region. In the Southern Appalachian Mountains of the United States, tobacco became a staple and livelihood for the residents for over one hundred years. Starting in North Carolina in 1870 with the production of flue-cured tobacco. However, within the last twenty years, the crop has declined due to health and ecological concerns, and farmers have since begun to switch to different products to make a living, such as sweet potatoes. One of those new crops is industrialized hemp.
In Tennessee, the state legalized the cultivation of hemp in 2019. Because the crime lab found that hemp, classified as Cannabis sativa, contained less than 0.3% of THC.
"Tobacco is out, hemp is in. In recent years, farmers across the country have chosen hemp as their new money-making crop. The benefits of farming hemp outweigh the benefits of farming tobacco and many popular crops that have been farmed for years. Research has shown that farming hemp helps the environment in countless ways, (Logan Ridenour, 2024.)"
A 2013 edition of the Indiana International & Comparative Law Review says, " Many states have conducted their own feasibility studies examining what hemp can do for them. 6 In this time of economic turmoil and budget deficits, states are looking for ways to diversify and expand their current industries. They are also looking for cheaper, smarter, more environmentally friendly ways to produce products in their current industries."
Someone who is growing hemp for a profit can make between two-thousand and forty-thousand dollars per acre. In Tennessee, there are a little over one thousand producers of industrial hemp since the legalization in the state.
In 2015, Hemp homes, dome were introduced at a United Kingdom design event. This creation was meant to make the growth of industrialized hemp easier, even from your own back yard.
"What we're finding is that really in the last two to three years, we've gone from people not knowing what 'hemp crete' was to suddenly everybody you meet has heard of it at least and is very interested in it...The big advantage with this construction is that it's very easy to mount and with mass production, for example in China, in a big factory in China, the production price can be very, very low, which means this house can solve a lot of problems for housing solutions, hurricane disasters, earthquakes and so on, it can also withstand, (Associated Press, 2015)."
A 2023 edition of Plant & Soil listed on of the benefits of producing the crop.
"The potential benefits of industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) as a drought resistant fibre crop have been touted, but the underlying evidence base of such claims is conflicting. Hemp has several drought resistance traits that allow it to thrive under water deficit, including deep roots and effective stomatal regulation, but studies report varying results for water requirements and water use efficiency, (Gill, 2023)."
References
Gill, A. R., Loveys, B. R., Cavagnaro, T. R., & Burton, R. A. (2023). The potential of industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) as an emerging drought resistant fibre crop. Plant & Soil, 493(1/2), 7–16. https://doi-org.oclc.fullsail.edu/10.1007/s11104-023-06219-9
Hemp homes, dome domains and smart sheds at UK design event. (2015, May 8). Associated Press.
Keller, N. M. (2013). The Legalization of Industrial Hemp and What It Could Mean for Indiana’s Biofuel Industry. Indiana International & Comparative Law Review, 23(3), 555–589.
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