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As interest in industrial hemp has grown, so too has interest in hemp-centric production.

Hemp isn’t just for hackin’ the sack at Phish shows or making rope. This amazing plant, a non-psychoactive variety of cannabis grown specifically for industrial purposes, has a vast number of applications for a greener planet.

While plenty of cannabis goes up in smoke in coffee shops around the Netherlands, Dutch researchers have found a new use for it - as an environmentally friendly building material to rival cement or steel.

Don’t be surprised if, by this time next year, you see a small hemp plane soaring overhead.

As marijuana laws continue to loosen across the country -- and the world -- it looks like hemp could be brought back in a big way.

One acre of hemp can reportedly yield up to 5,300 pounds of straw, which can be turned into 1,300 pounds of wood fiber.

Hempcrete — a mixture of hemp stalk, water and lime — could pave the way toward a sustainable future.