Germany is building with hemp. The UK is still debating it. Why?

Fresh back from Europe's largest cannabis expo, ICBC Berlin. The place was booming with people and thriving businesses. The contrast with the UK is stark.

From Bavaria to Brandenburg, industrial hemp in Germany is being integrated into regional development plans. Not just as a crop, but as strategic infrastructure. Fibre processing plants, carbon-sequestering construction hubs, and advanced nonwoven facilities are being funded with public-private investment. Farmers can harvest the whole plant. Processors have local supply chains. Policymakers are backing it.

Meanwhile, in the UK:

– The recent THC reform to 0.3% was welcome, but still hasn’t unlocked access to whole-plant harvesting.

– POCA still makes it legally and financially safer to import hemp from China than to grow it in Cornwall.

– The market for hemp-based insulation, paper, and bioplastics is growing — but UK supply remains fractured and underfunded.

Globally, the hemp fibre market is projected to triple by 2030. The UK should be leading that growth, not watching it.

The blueprint exists.  What we need now is backbone.

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