Everyone has played on a tree at some point in their lives. Some have climbed them, or picked apples from them, or even just enjoyed the shade that they created. However, trees are becoming more and more scarce each year. According to the World Resource Institute only about 1% of our old growth forests remain within the United States. Loggers are clear-cutting forests in the Pacific Northwest and Virginia at an alarming rate for the production …showed first 75 words of 510 total…

…showed last 75 words of 510 total…states where local laws permit it. However, within America's borders for the last 4 decades, the DEA has continued to deny every permit for large-scale hemp farming. The one exception was in 1999 when they gave researchers in Hawaii permission to grow a one-quarter acre test plot of the crop. Hemp is nature's strongest, longest, and most durable fiber. As a fabric it is more insulating, softer, more breathable, more absorbent, and also longer lasting than cotton.