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West Coast Hemp is a purveyor of quality natural fiber goods and other green products. All of our apparel is made from 100% eco-fibers. This means 100% hemp for many of our items. In our finest knits, hemp is blended with its sister eco-fiber, flax, or with organic cotton. All of these fibers are processed entirely by mechanical means without any chemicals whatsoever. We have many other eco-friendly products too!

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Industrial hemp has thousands of uses, including paper, textiles, biodegradable plastics, health food, and fuel, but it has not been the great commercial success that the enthusiast hoped for due to unreasonable restrictions placed on it by our government to support ancient lobbying by the nylon industry in it's infancy. It is one of the fastest growing biomasses on the planet, and one of the earliest domesticated plants known. It also runs parallel with the "Green Future" objectives that are becoming increasingly popular. Hemp requires little to no pesticides, replenishes soil with nutrients and nitrogen, controls erosion of the topsoil, and produces a lot of oxygen, considering how fast it grows. Furthermore, Hemp could be used to replace many potentially harmful products, such as tree paper (the processing of which uses bleaches and other toxic chemicals, and contributes to deforestation), cosmetics (which often contain synthetic oils that can clog pores and provide little nutritional content for the skin), and plastics (which are petroleum based and cannot decompose).

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