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Hemp has a variety of uses, not just for rope and fabric, but also as a readily renewable resource for making paper, construction materials, high protein food, and safe, clean fuel.

Uses

Hemp can be grown nearly anywhere. It grows very rapidly and has many uses:

Food. The seeds are extremely nutritious.
body care (soaps - from hemp oil and lye)
paper
Textiles. Hemp fiber can be woven into a material like light cotton (suitable for T-shirts etc.) or a thick canvas material suitable for bags, warm blankets. See the page on spinning and weaving for instructions on what to do with it once harvested.
Rope. Hemp fiber is very strong.
hempcrete
chemicals
replacement for plastics (example: hemp fiber, biocomposites, etc.)
fuels (hemp oil / biodiesel/ cellulosic ethanol)
animal feed
Small percentage of hemp was used in what appears to be a composite - rather than bioplastic - car body (70% fiber, of which fiber 10% was hemp, and 30% binder) - [1]