Klaus Martin Meyer
In an age of rising raw material prices, also renewable raw materials are rediscovered hemp as an indigenous fiber plant, our region supplied textiles and rope fibres; until the mid-20th century a.d. the production of synthetic fibres and the import of cotton were politically interesting. The argument that the plant was also to be used as intoxicants, made possible a ban on cultivation. In almost all areas, hemp was then replaced by inferior products. Cotton, whichread more…