An Enviomental\Economic Solution

[The_People]

I've been watching a series of movies and it seems to me that the solution to very very many economic and enviromental problems are all in one plant we all know as ......











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HEMP! thats right, Hemp is good for almost anything in this world, paper, clothes, food, fuel, building material and so much more. If u dont believe me u can takea look urselves here at these links. Don't argue if u havent watched them.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?do...224&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-7215884908568593154&q=Weed+history

 

[Fifty]

Hemp is just what's currently fashionable among hippy-folk.

A few years ago it was soy! soy cures everything! soy can be used for everything! soy is the greatest thing in the history of history! Now hippys are anti-soy and think its just horrible.

Two years from now hippies are going to be anti-hemp, and they'll be raving about the wonders of cactus or something. They'll also have a new favorite buzzword. In the soy era it was "conservation", and today in the hemp era it's "sustainability". When the cactus era comes along they'll come up with a new favorite buzzword too. Something nice and stupid sounding like "envirotactical".

 

[Perfection]

Watch out for switchgrass Fifty. It might be next!

 

[The_People]

Its not the same, u didn't watch the movies

 

[frob2900]

Hemp is just what's currently fashionable among hippy-folk.

A few years ago it was soy! soy cures everything! soy can be used for everything! soy is the greatest thing in the history of history! Now hippys are anti-soy and think its just horrible.

I'm pretty sure hemp has been fashionable for quite a while among hippy folk. At least from what I remember from reading High Times a few years ago.

 

[Perfection]

Its not the same, u didn't watch the movies

yeah, because it's full of uneccessary crap that wastes our time in making this argument.

And come on, the tags are "Illuminati; Secret Societies; Freemason; New World Order; Conspiracy; Corruption; Elite; Establishment; Alien; UFO; Pschedelics; Shamanism; Mushrooms; Hemp; Mind Control;"

That's just poopy.

 

[The_People]

WEll watch it, then argue

 

[Perfection]

Can you point to wear the actual argument is after the needless historical info?

Look, there are countless vids like this out there and I don't have the time to view them unless I can be convinced that there is some sort of merit to them.

Why should I even watch this? What makes them experts?

 

[ainwood]

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[Perfection]

I guess what I'm really trying to get at is this:

You should not expect people to watch over an hour of videos without prior giving them an indication of the quality of them. By indicating quality, I mean showing the qualifications of those who made them to ensure that this isn't some random nut with fancy video software.

 

[Che Guava]

My father is a hemp breeder, and I can tell you, it's the real deal. Fiber, oilseed, animalfeed pharmaceuticals...all from the same plant that can grow 3m tall if you let it....

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Fifty's obligatory South Park-esque attitude aside, I think hemp actually is an amazing substance, hippies or no hippies. And it can be grown practically everywhere!

We could even add a Weed Board to go along with the Wheat Board.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

It may be useful, and I am sure we are not getting its full potential, but I doubt it alone is the answer to the host of environmental and economic problems we face.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

It may be useful, and I am sure we are not getting its full potential, but I doubt it alone is the answer to the host of environmental and economic problems we face.

True... bicycles and nuclear power are the rest of the equation.

 

[skadistic]

Hemp has been the plant fiber of choice for a lot longer then hippies have existed.

 

[El_Machinae]

They've put silk protein genes in corn (IIRC). I wonder what magic would occur if they did that with hemp?

 

[skadistic]

They've put silk protein genes in corn (IIRC). I wonder what magic would occur if they did that with hemp?

Hemp fiber can already be refined to a nice feel about the same as cotton. Would this protein make the plant fibers more smooth or higher strength or both?

 

[El_Machinae]

Oh, I have no idea. I don't really know much about the effects in the corn (as it is) and am not really knowledgable regarding plant biotechnology.

I just think it might be cool! There's probably a Masters student somewhere that could be convinced to try it.

 

[skadistic]

Oh, I have no idea. I don't really know much about the effects in the corn (as it is) and am not really knowledgable regarding plant biotechnology.

I just think it might be cool! There's probably a Masters student somewhere that could be convinced to try it.

Sometimes I wish I was a scientists because I would do some cool stuff with hemp. I can think of ways to get a divergence of plants that could make mostly super tall stems for fiber, mostly leaves for what ever leaves are good for and nice short plants that can be grown in green houses for seed oils. . Maybe when I'm old and retired.

 

[MjM]

I'm not going to watch1 hour and 30 minutes worth of video just to argue with a neo-hippy.