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Pot for a better tomorrow????
| By sean - May 21, 2008 11:40:57 AM ET |
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Hmmmm, Hemp for victory.... WWII? NORML? CAN? Well I be Dipped in tar baby.... I thought that yous peeps dropped off the planet. Hehehehe J/K. In actuallity everything that I've read from these guys is true: from hemp oils to bio-fuel, paper products to bio-plastics, rope to rastas it is all true.... the reason hemp (mariauajuana) is illegal is more tax issue than medical ones (Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got That Way... History channel documentary from 2004 or 06 ) BUT........ IT IS ILLEGAL! While you are touting the benifits of the cannibis plant consider this, IT MUST STILL BE CULTIVATED! Not the most efficient method to produce a bio-fuel. Now consider the lowly switch grass plant. Grows anywhere without cultivation, drought resistant (cannibis is not), and can produce all the products that your precious cannibis sativia can cheeper and way more efficiently. NOW if you want to make an arguement that cannibis has relevance in the world as a safe, useful, and profitable product, tout its benifits to chemotherapy patients, glaucoma sufferers, and as a safe and natural analgesic. Try the arguement that tobacco is way more harmful to the enviroment and the human body and should be made illegal, mariauajuana legalized, and the tobacco industry given the mariauajuana concession, with its by-products used to increase bio-fuel production, paper production, or just composted and I'll be 100% behind it. But as a plant for bio-fuel production it is found wanting. Even for paper it is more inefficient than bamboo which can make a better weave cloth that cannibis as well. Sorry to rain on the parade guys but go the medical route it makes way more sense and has a proven track record that has been scientificly studied with empirical data that can be quoted. (Available references through the University of California Berkley). Nevertheless it is AN alternative. Just dont use sophistry to belabor the point.
world without end,
sean
world without end,
sean
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"While you are touting the benifits of the cannibis plant consider this, IT MUST STILL BE CULTIVATED! Not the most efficient method to produce a bio-fuel. "
We're cultivating corn for fuel. Hemp is a much better alternative that can be used for food after the energy benefits are extracted.
"But as a plant for bio-fuel production it is found wanting."
What we are doing now, using energy that is killing us, our health and economy, is found wanting.
Hemp works as a clean energy source along with solar, hydro, wind and magnetic.
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Hemp biofuel is 4 times more efficient than corn and non-toxic unlike oil.
Hemp is a weed that grows quickly with low maintenance. I have a friend on LA, Sister Somayah Kambui, who has grown up to 4 crops a year in her back yard.
Hemp scrubs the air of excess CO2, the cause of global warming regardless of its source, as it grows.
Hemp burns clean as biofuel. Hemp pellets can be used in power plants as an energy source to create electricity without polluting our environment.
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Hemp can help us restore the family farm, a cornerstone of our economy that was trashed in the 1980's. Tax revenue from many of the 50,000 plus uses for the plant would be a small business boost to our economy.
Substantial quantities of hemp can be grown on 20% of unused federal land, allotted to family farms with computerized growing plans and updates.
The toxic chemicals/nutrients used to grow corn along the Mississippi could be at cause for the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Hemp requires no toxic chemicals to grow which helps with ground water pollution and the health of farm workers.
The hemp paper used in the Guttenberg Bible still holds the sacred words written on it 500 years ago.
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"BUT........ IT IS ILLEGAL! "
Here we agree. Hemp, a tool we can use to solve global warming is illegal while toxic energy (and medicine) is legal. So now what? Do we just shut up about it and die? Or do we fight to use this truth, hemp heals, to change the laws that are killing us and help us solve our problems today and tomorrow.
It's time to legalize nature. Legalize hemp, tax recreational at 20%.
For more "hempin'spiration" visit the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing at www.hempmuseum.org