Manufacturing jobs could indeed return

[SHRED]

We just need the political will to utilize this plant.

A win for labor, a win for our economy, and a win for our environment.

https://www.learngreenflower.com/articles/325/15-mind-blowing-ways-hemp-can-heal-the-world

[Warpy]

1. Industries are terrified of hemp

meaning wood pulp. petroleum, cotton, and several others that would be severely threatened by industrially grown and processed hemp.

It's not just for rope any more.

[SHRED]

2. They all could switch over

It would be an adjustment but they could.

[Warpy]

5. it would require a tremendous amount of investment in equipment

and an equally tremendous loss for loggers and other people who make their living managing timber slated for pulp. Ditto the other industries. I don't see billionaires ready to risk lending to adjust industries, they'd rather shuffle their money around to increase their numbers rather than do anything practical.

[Raster]

8. It's not just for rope any more.

[superpatriotman]

9. Industries like private prisons

and those who work for and supply them

[bravenak]

3. So many useful products are made from this plant

Time to get our ground game in order and start getting these states to legalize all products made from this resource. I'd rather help coal country develop new industry to replace that dirty product they mine, a product that fewer and fewer people want to use to power their lives.

[ghostsinthemachine]

4. Yeah but....

The manufacturing wont be done in the US. Never. Just like our forests are cut, shipped to China, milled and sold at Home Depot. All of the plants that do the type of manufacturing required to process hemp exist. In China.

[mythology]

6. Is there some reasons those jobs wouldn't be automated?

That's where most of manufacturing went.

[linuxman]

7. This.

Makes no sense. Manufacturing isn't some eternal thing that just moved to China for a bit. It's gone. Forever. At least in the sense that Dad is going to go off to the factory and put in eight hours turning out products. Unless Dad is a robot, that is.

[lumberjack_jeff]

10. Provided we ban imports, then yes.

But then again that's true of everything.

[Squinch]

11. We actually manufacture more in this country than ever before. The problem is that manufacturing

jobs are now jobs for robots. That's not going to change.