jjp8182
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It can be. The laws were rather hazy on the topic, but within the last couple years some of them have been greatly clarified to introduce a legal difference between hemp production and marijuana production (which is a big thing given marijuana growing and use is still illegal in much of the US). From my very limited understanding, by the new legal definitions hemp has a lower THC content, thus can legally be transported across state lines.
However, the bulk material can be refined for pharmaceutical pill production.
Either way it's just a matter of time before large scale agribusiness get more involved, and mechanize the entire process driving production costs to rock bottom, and supply to the point it reaches low food prices.
Personally I'm thinking I might actually retire into small-scale farming/forestry/homesteading from engineering. Though from what I've seen of people who "retire" from farming it usually seems to boil down to they either have children that have taken over the farm (in which case they may just reduce their level of involvement), or they've hit the point that their children are all grown left farming in which case all the big bills are paid and they can scale back operations to just cover anything not addressed government programs (to include Social Security).
Actually I'm not sure I've ever met (or even heard of someone) who's retired from farming, sold off everything and went to travel the world or just go live somewhere else. After all those years, I think I'd have a hard time thinking of the the farm as anything other than home, and many of the farming activities (though not all) as just keeping the place up. ...of course, I'm not the sort that'd want to go sit on the beach sipping mai tais and margaritas all day long either.
However, the bulk material can be refined for pharmaceutical pill production.
Either way it's just a matter of time before large scale agribusiness get more involved, and mechanize the entire process driving production costs to rock bottom, and supply to the point it reaches low food prices.
Personally I'm thinking I might actually retire into small-scale farming/forestry/homesteading from engineering. Though from what I've seen of people who "retire" from farming it usually seems to boil down to they either have children that have taken over the farm (in which case they may just reduce their level of involvement), or they've hit the point that their children are all grown left farming in which case all the big bills are paid and they can scale back operations to just cover anything not addressed government programs (to include Social Security).
Actually I'm not sure I've ever met (or even heard of someone) who's retired from farming, sold off everything and went to travel the world or just go live somewhere else. After all those years, I think I'd have a hard time thinking of the the farm as anything other than home, and many of the farming activities (though not all) as just keeping the place up. ...of course, I'm not the sort that'd want to go sit on the beach sipping mai tais and margaritas all day long either.
. . . I believe you are right in one aspect . . . ^^^^^^^^
