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Exploringthe Hemp Plant: Roots, Stalks, Leaves, and More

Stalk

  1. FIber
  2. Paper
  3. Building materials

Roots

  1. Medicine

Leaves

  1. Medicine / recreation
  2. Animal beeding

Seeds

Health benefits (nutrition, body care)
• Hemp Seeds: Health Benefits, Nutritional Value, Uses and Risks • 5 Health Benefits of Hemp Seeds • Industrial Hemp (Cannabis sativa subsp. sativa) as an Emerging Source for Value-Added Functional Food Ingredients and Nutraceuticals
Fuel: Replaced petro chemicals
The industrial-grade hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) seed oil biodiesel application in adiesel engine: combustion, harmful pollutants, and performance characteristics•  Biodiesel production from hempseed (Cannabis sativa L.) oil: Providing optimum conditions by response surface methodology• Soybean Car - The Henry Ford: Henry Ford used fiber reinforced panels in a car, the exact fiber composition is not known, it may have included hemp, but most likely it was made with soy; more likely: car was supposed to run on hemp fuel

Stalk

1. Textiles
2. Paper
3. Building Materials

Hemp textiles:

1.Oldest discovered hemp fabric at least 6000 years old (in China)
2. Hemp in the US in the 1600 – before cotton came to America
3. “Canvas” comes from the word cannabis because initial canvases (for sails) were madefrom hemp

Paper

• Invented in China 105 CE
• Initially using hemp, Later also used tree bark, bamboo, other plant fibers used
• 6th to 10thcPaperry: paper making spreads to Korea, Japan, Persia, India, Damascus, Egypt, and Morocco.
• 11th century CE: paper craft established Spain and Sicily (Islamic part)
• Papermade using old rags made from hemp and flax
• The initial batch of Gutenberg bibles made in the early 1450s consisted of bibles made from parchment madefrom animal skins (vellum) and made using paper; this paper may have been made from hemp The Gutenberg Bible

Building materials: replace glass fiber

Hempcrete: developed for house insulation in France (early 1990s)
made from hemp shives (woody core of the stalk), lime-based binder and water
• Hempcrete – Natural Building Alliance

Hemp fiber reinforced composites: reduce use of plastics made from petro chemicals

• Used for our RAW rollers!
• Can make plastic stronger
• Hempcrete – Natural Building Alliance
• Can make plastic stronger
• Characterization of Hemp Fiber Reinforced Composites Using Thermoplastic Polymers as Matrices
• ResearchGate