Ok, 2 things..: 1. The human race are becoming elves.... we\'re living in plant-houses, what\'ll be next? Sky-scraper-trees?
2. I bet someone would set the house on fire and stay inside to get high :P
And a question: Isn\'t this house extremely easily flammable? It seems a little bit dangerous to live in o.O However i like the concept, and if it\'s not easily flammable, i\'d definitely consider living in one.

Lets hear it for American hemp farmers--the most buzzed farmers in the nation! The only downside I can see with large-scale hemp farming in the States is that the locations will have to be controlled by law enforcement to keep teenagers from baking their brains to oblivion, and that will drive up costs either through business overhead or through taxes. That said, I\'m seriously considering building my own hemp house.

An addendum: if it\'s difficult to get high on the industrial form of hemp and it cannot be easily altered/bred into a form that does get you high then it is plausible that the federal government could be convinced not to impose the tight security I mentioned above.

Alright kids, for the bajillionth time... industrial hemp doesn\'t get you high. Not that that should be considered a problem... There is no \"requirement\" for law enforcement to brutalize and imprison peaceful folks for the simple act of choosing how they wish to think. If the powers that be were interested in building communities over standardized human work units of \'productivity\' we\'d be able to look out for and after each other without taxes, giant corporate subsidies, and the like. George washington was both a hemp farmer and a smoker of female cannabis plants. Revolutionaries such as George that champion individual liberties (ever read the constitution?) are the kinds of people the war on drugs is in place to persecute and keep quiet. Why on earth would anyone care about (for example) what Willie Nelson does on his tourbus.
Anyways, draconian policy not in any way influenced by legitimate science and the notion of inalienable human rights aside, hemp is an extremely useful, productive plant that can be grown cheaply on an industrial scale in America if it weren\'t deemed illegal by those lovely folks in washington. But instead, we subsidize corn (and milk) to the point of throwing bargeloads away in the ocean.

Reading the first two comments I\'m struck with the fact that people in this country - even those interested in science and technology - are so ignorant to think that you can get high on hemp.
Cannabis can be grown for THC or fiber and seed. Unfertilized females produce the most THC - Mexican brick average 8-12% THC with hybrids grown hydroponically capable of double that amount.
Hemp is planted like corn and males dominate as they grow taller. The competition for sunlight produces plants up to 18 feet tall with a THC content of 0.2% - at least 40 times LESS than Mexican brick. Once the fiber is extracted the THC content is virtually nil.
The advantage of hemp over other fibrous plants is the the fibers range from 12-18 feet in length. Further the seed averages 25% dietary protein and is palatable to humans and animals, especially birds who can crack the raw seed with their beaks. It\'s what makes canaries sing.
Further the seed can be pressed for oil, and that oil was used in WWII bombers as a lubricant and could be used as a basis for biofuel.
North Dakota passed a law that would regulate the growing of hemp, but the DEA sued in federal court to override the state law. Meanwhile no farmer can grow corn without government subsidies, and the variety (yellow dent) has very little protein but lots of sugar which is fed to livestock or made into high fructose corn syrup. Watch this video (1hour 24 minutes) if you want to know what HFCS is doing to our society:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Of course we all know that hemp plant (sativa) for making things is different than hemp (indica) you smoke.

Not all Cannabis strains have high enough levels of THC to get people high. There are thousands of different strains. Not too mention only the female plant produces buds that contain the THC. The Cannabis Sativa plant is grown to produce Hemp as it grows very tall and is suited to Hemp production. Here in Canada, Hemp Farming has been regulated and works pretty well. As far as teenagers causing trouble, I have never heard of an issue.
The early settlers were forced to grow a certain amount of hemp on their properties. Many people dont know this. Until the early 1900\'s when everyone was afraid that their white daughters were going to be sleeping with black men, then the world flipped!
If anyone reading this is interested in the healthiest seed in the world to consume, look up Hemp seed or hemp seed oil. It packs more protein than meat, and all the Omega 3, 6, and 9\'s that you\'ll ever need in your diet.
Not to mention Biofuel, and medicine. I could go on forever...Stop prohibition! Free the most important plant in the world. Do your research!

@Brutal McKillins - Actually not... \"*Industrial hemp has a THC content of between 0.05 and 1%. Marijuana has a THC content of 3% to 20%. To receive a standard psychoactive dose would require a person to power-smoke 10-12 hemp cigarettes over an extremely short period of time. The large volume and high temperature of vapor, gas and smoke would be almost impossible for a person to withstand.\" (http://naihc.org/hemp_information/hemp_facts.html)

If this building method has been around for so long and offers a raft of advantages over concrete, why on earth is this not a \'mainstream\' building technique?
I guess there are a lot of good ideas out there that never see the light of day because of lack of investment, marketing etc. Sigh I want a hemp house!

Industrial hemp is not at all the same as the type of hemp used to get high.