High Hopes for Hemp Industries

Dr Susanna Wilkerson has great visions for a plant often maligned for its association with drug use.
High Hopes for Hemp Industries
Hemp hand bags and bath products (above) are among the many hemp products for sale at the 'Capitol Hemp' store on May 20, 2010 in Washington, DC. Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images
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Hemp hand bags and bath products (above) are among the many hemp products for sale at the 'Capitol Hemp' store on May 20, 2010 in Washington, DC.  (Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images)
Spending day after day in fields of cannabis, one can come up with some pretty offbeat ideas—like making houses out of hemp.

But Dr Susanna Wilkerson has great visions for a plant often maligned for its association with drug use.

The founder of Australian company Pure Delight Hemp says the fibrous plant could replace trees as a source of the world’s paper. Its seeds are nothing short of a super food and it can decontaminate vast tracts of land, including nuclear wastelands.