Why outlawing cannabis was a HUGE mistake

We've used cannabis for tens of thousands of years. Not just to get high but also to make textiles, paper, medicine and much more. We then outlawed it for decades – only to realize the stuff is pretty good at helping fight climate change. So get ready for the cannabis comeback. Reporter: Serdar Vardar  Camera: Serdar Vardar  Video Editor: David Jacobi  Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk , Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann & Kiyo Dörrer We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess. #PlanetA #Cannabis #IndustrialHemp Read more: Hemp and sustainable agriculture: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-8778-5_1 Challenges of revitalizing hemp: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138517301772 Hemp as a sustainable raw material: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402200041X A potted history of Cannabis: https://www.nature.com/articles/525s10a Chapters:   00:00 Intro  00:52 The forgotten crop 04:08 Buildings made from hemp 07:03 Better paper? 08:00 Hemp and the textile industry 10:12 What holds us back 12:12 What lies ahead 13:35 Outro Special thanks for background interviews to: Ethan Russo Daniel Piomelli Tony DeVeyra Michael Bieder Don Langlois Robert C. Pearce John Fike Benjamin Cassou Francesco Mirizzi