<div>At Green Headway Interntional we promote the self-cultivation of organic products in general, knowing that the basis of success in agriculture is the observation of natural ecosystems, together with the ancestral wisdom of primitive peoples and scientific knowledge and apply it in agriculture without negatively interfering with other living things can be successful. We are based on ecological models and we try to flow with the balance that nature gives us, creating a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more food than we find in nature. Today we will see how the cultivation of cannabis can positively influence nature and the human race.</div><div><br></div><div>It has been said that the cannabis industry can replace the large oil industry, since the opportunities and sustainable and substitute production of products that we have thanks to the cultivation of cannabis are many: from paper, fibers to textile fabrics, Bio -Fuel, Medicine, Bio-construction materials, Food, Recreation, bio-plastics, ETC. This alone is a major development step by which you could help the planet on a large scale if your industry were to be implemented on a day-to-day basis.</div><div><br></div><div>Can Growing Cannabis Save the Planet?</div><div><br></div><div>Today we will talk about cannabis and its close relationship with nature, how it can positively intervene in nature and the planet, promoting life and helping the planet much more than we expected, positively influencing humans as well as the planet. from its seed to its final processed product.</div><div>Many of us know the benefits that cannabis has in industry, medicine, economy, renewable energy and others, but taking this into account, should we promote its mass cultivation? There would be many benefits in many areas for the development of the human being, but added to this, growing cannabis also has a totally positive impact on the planet and for mother earth, helping the recovery and well-being of the earth.</div><div><br></div><div>It does everything through a process of phytoremediation, a term coined by Dr. Ilya Raskin of the Center for Biotechnology at Rutgers University (New Jersey). This process is capable of using plant species to decontaminate soils, purify wastewater or even clean the air indoors. Specifically, with the cultivation of Cannabis, it causes pollutants to be absorbed by the roots of the plant, which store and, in some cases, transform toxins into harmless substances. This is being demonstrated by farmers in the fields of Taranto, in the Italian region of Apulia, who after seeing how a toxin present in the pastures wiped out their flock of sheep have decided to use hemp to restore wealth to the land on which they planted .</div><div><br></div><div>Due to these properties, hemp cultivation could also be a good livelihood method for impoverished countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia. Cannabis has the ability to grow in depleted soils with little or no nutrients. Its powerful root system can break up compacted soil, providing aeration and porosity, but firmly stabilizing the soil, helping to control erosion.</div><div>There are many who think that the cultivation of industrial hemp in strategic areas should be a primary decision of any government, as a rotation crop to avoid parasites and not to use unnecessary pesticides or solvents. In some way, the hemp stabilizes the area and acts as a filter by breaking down the polluting matter after absorbing it. This was certified by a study carried out by the Polish Institute of Natural Fibers in 1995 by ensuring that hemp could withstand high levels of heavy metals without affecting the growth of the plant, its harvest or the quality of the fiber.</div><div>In addition, these plantations are capable of replenishing the necessary nutrients in just one year of cultivation. In this way, its growth in inert soils provides new properties to the substrate and makes it suitable for growing any type of plant. This could become an opportunity to take advantage of certain areas and thus boost the local economy and self-sufficiency in the most impoverished places. Without any doubt, ‘Cannabis sativa’ surprises us every day with its multiple properties, to the point that it is capable of giving life where it did not exist before.</div><div><br></div><div>The good results of land reclamation in Chernobyl However, it is not the first time that this process has been carried out successfully to decontaminate farmland. In the 1990s, after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hemp was used together with other plants, such as sunflowers or grasses, to clean the floors of contaminating metals in the areas near the nuclear power plant. Specifically, in 1998, the laboratory s Phytotech, together with growers and the Ukraine Institute of Fiber Crops, made the decision to plant industrial hemp with the aim of removing radioactive cesium and strontium, which are highly toxic even in minute quantities.</div><div>"Hemp has proven to be one of the best phytoremediation plants we have found," said Slavik Dushenkov, a research scientist at Phytotech laboratories, after verifying the excellent results in areas affected by one of the largest nuclear catastrophes in history .</div><div><br></div><div>In addition to Ukraine, much of the lands of neighboring Belarus were affected by the nuclear explosion. Thus Belarusian scientists and the local authorities also advised the use of hemp as a decontaminant. Their investigations certified that it not only had the advantages of plants destined for phytoremediation, but that it could also be used to generate biofuel and reduce the total volume of CO2 that is emitted into the atmosphere with its use.</div><div><br></div><div>In this way, the benefits that cannabis has to help planet earth are evidenced, at Green Headway International we are committed to caring for the planet, and therefore we encourage practices in favor of the planet, one of them is Cultivation plants, including Cannabis, in this way we can collectively help each other without leaving behind the care of Mother Earth.</div>
