planeflyer21 Posted January 30, 2013 Report Posted January 30, 2013 Leaf!http://truththeory.com/2013/01/29/farmers-begin-planting-hemp-under-new-colorado-hemp-legalization/Seriously though, the resistance to hemp production (a product that helped found our nation!) is from a few special interests.It is a low-water/arid environment plant. Pests are minimal and pesticides use is low to zero. Farmers can do multiple plantings a year with this hearty plant, versus cotton (1 annual planting) or rapid growth genetically altered trees (years to harvest). The fiber outlasts cotton about 5:1 (you'll hear "hemp wears in, cotton wears out"). Paper yield for an acre of hemp is about 4:1 compared to lumber. Additionally the bask/hull of hemp is water-soluble for paper-making, bypassing the posionous sulphuric acid needed to break down wood pulp (anyone ever smell Berlin, NH when the papermills were going?).The "climate change pushers", i.e. Gore et al, prove themselves to be full of crap when hemp is mentioned. Hemp is God's atmospheric scrubber...it can pull more CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) out of the air we breath, than any "cap and trade" tax politicians come up with (where are all the tree-planting campaigns?).I have a sample of fiberboard made from hemp...the poop is STRONG!Did you know that the word denim is originally from reference to the hemp canvas from de Nimes, France? That is where Levi Strauss got the canvas for tents he was selling to the '49ers, when he realized they needed durable clothes.Research hempseed and hempoil. Fantastic stuff! Diesel originally designed his engine to operate on bio-oils, like hempoil. You can find Chinese diesel engines that will do the same. The ones we use tuned for fuel-oil have some issues with veggie fuels.Sorry...can you tell I'm a hemp proponent?Jon
edgecrusher Posted January 30, 2013 Report Posted January 30, 2013 Good post Jon, lots of facts unrelated to the common misconceptions of the plant
Robocop1051 Posted January 30, 2013 Report Posted January 30, 2013 Based on the time stamp of the OP, I think someone was experimenting with one of the "medicinal" uses for hemp <laughs> <lmao>
planeflyer21 Posted January 30, 2013 Author Report Posted January 30, 2013 Based on the time stamp of the OP, I think someone was experimenting with one of the "medicinal" uses for hemp <laughs> <lmao>Just because robot cops get to sleep in doesn't mean the rest of us <COFF> can.Jon
edgecrusher Posted January 30, 2013 Report Posted January 30, 2013 Just because robot cops get to sleep in doesn't mean the rest of us <COFF> can.Jon <lmao>Jon is almost always posting around that time, I know because when I'm at work and you and Tom go to bed I look forward to his early morning posts!
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