An Enviomental\Economic Solution

[skadistic]

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

I'm not a neo-hippy argue with me. (I didn't watch the video)

 

[El_Machinae]

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.

Quite frankly, you're better than a scientist already. You're an entrepreneur. You should take a couple courses on plant biotech (just to get your head around it) and then figure out a way of funding such an endeavour. You don't need an M.Sc., you just need to hire one. Hell, with some venture capital and a good idea, you can make a bunch of people rich (if you're lucky).

.... though it's a little too late at night for me to brainstorm a good way to get hemp research as a side project of your current business ...

 

[skadistic]

Quite frankly, you're better than a scientist already. You're an entrepreneur. You should take a couple courses on plant biotech (just to get your head around it) and then figure out a way of funding such an endeavour. You don't need an M.Sc., you just need to hire one. Hell, with some venture capital and a good idea, you can make a bunch of people rich (if you're lucky).

.... though it's a little too late at night for me to brainstorm a good way to get hemp research as a side project of your current business ...

Considering I will lose all my government contracts I'll pass. If it was legal I'd have it growing on me back porch for the hell of it. It smells so good.

I'd like to do more with millet too. I have a few plants growing now for the bird but it makes a pretty good flour too. And it grows rather well, even when you neglect it.

 

[Narz]

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".

Seriously Fifty, you're embarrassing yourself. Throwing out evidence simply because "some hippie mentioned it" is pretty far from logical.

"Mainstream media" (who we should all wait for before forming any opinons ) has had plenty of articles about the benefits of legalizing industrial hemp (not to be confused with marijuana) and the idiocy of America refusing to (in Canada and most of Europe it is legal & much is exported to America). There was an article quoting a congressman (forgot the name) in the local paper (the Santa Cruz Sentinel) here just recently.

If you have no interest in the topic of agricultural or environmental solutions don't spam & troll threads on those issues.

 

[Fifty]

Seriously Fifty, you're embarrassing yourself. Throwing out evidence simply because "some hippie mentioned it" is pretty far from logical.

Seriously Narz, you're embarrassing yourself. Responding so seriously and smugly to a post that was so obviously not meant to be taken seriously only hurts your (already seriously injured) intellectual credibility.

 

[Narz]

Ok, then Fifty. What's your series response then? If you don't like the video why don't you search Google scholar for some better articles about hemp as a food, hemp vs. trees as paper/rope, hemp vs. cotton as clothing fiber, etc. and get back to us with your conclusions.

Unless you'd prefer to spam & troll some more.

 

[Fifty]

Ok, then Fifty. What's your series response then? If you don't like the video why don't you search Google scholar for some better articles about hemp as a food, hemp vs. trees as paper/rope, hemp vs. cotton as clothing fiber, etc. and get back to us with your conclusions.

My series response is that I didn't watch the videos. I clicked them and saw that the description was a giant mishmash of conspiracy nutjob keywords, so we know what kind of person the author is trying to attract. It strikes me as falling precisely under the type of thing Perf talks about when he refers to things not worth watching.

That said, I don't doubt that hemp has industrial uses. Hell it might even be the wonderplant people say it is. If that's been proven, then I think people really ought to shift their focus away from convincing the general public about hemp, and to changing the minds of the people in power. That means no more crazyarse google videos, because such things are unlikely to be taken seriously. It's unfortunate that appearance matters so much when the evidence should be what matters, but I think the hemp movement would benefit greatly by making its point in terms of a business suit (economic proposals to the type of corporations/thinktanks/politicians/academics/etc that can make something like this really come off the ground) rather than sandals and ratty old shirts (in random google videos and petitions at hippy festivals).

Interestingly, I bought a pair of hemp shoes once, and they completely fell apart. Of course that doesn't mean much, but I thought it was pretty funny nonetheless.

 

[Narz]

That said, I don't doubt that hemp has industrial uses. Hell it might even be the wonderplant people say it is. If that's been proven, then I think people really ought to shift their focus away from convincing the general public about hemp, and to changing the minds of the people in power. That means no more crazyarse google videos, because such things are unlikely to be taken seriously. It's unfortunate that appearance matters so much when the evidence should be what matters, but I think the hemp movement would benefit greatly by making its point in terms of a business suit (economic proposals to the type of corporations/thinktanks/politicians/academics/etc that can make something like this really come off the ground) rather than sandals and ratty old shirts (in random google videos and petitions at hippy festivals).

I agree with pretty much all of this.

Interestingly, I bought a pair of hemp shoes once, and they completely fell apart. Of course that doesn't mean much, but I thought it was pretty funny nonetheless.

I had some really crappy hemp sandals that didn't last long. I've had good experience with hemp shoes though. In fact I'm wearing some right now.

 

[The_People]

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.

Agree totaly with, The People will be pleased to start a weedd board, we'll call it The People's Weed Board