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Congress just voted to legalize hemp

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Re: Congress just voted to legalize hemp

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Post by TheBeardKing »

redwood wrote: post #15
14 wrote: post #6

What a disconnect from the population. State after state legalizing marijuana and congress moves to legalize hemp. At least at the state level people are being left alone to their own bidding.

Interestingly this will make it harder to grow high quality outdoor and even indoor (pollination risk rising; one reason it became relatively easy to grow high-quality outdoor is it the government ensured there were no males in vicinity!)

I recently learned from Narcos:Mexico that when drug cartels first created a female breed, they moved to cultivate it in the middle of a desert to ensure no cross-pollination.

Re: Congress just voted to legalize hemp

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Post by TheBeardKing »

gammateam wrote: post #5

The regulated psychoactive cannabis is way too strong for me. As long as its treated differently in its own licensing regime and establishments I think some form of education should accompany it, for consumers. Given generations of bad information. Its come up with others here in California, the THC products are REALLY strong and offputting for us casuals. The hybrids have potential

A better way to exact your dose is through edibles, like bite-sized candy. Most are 10 mg THC each, which is pretty low, but you can just eat part of a gummy if you want.

Re: Congress just voted to legalize hemp

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Post by nugga »

pessimizer wrote: post #18
nugga wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't believe you got downvoted for basically suggesting to people who think 50% ABV whiskey is too strong to drink shots of it, mix it down with something or just drink beer. Besides, it's leaving out a lot to say that today's weed is so strong and more so than what hippies had in the 70s. Surely cannabis strains were bred and cultivated back in the day and people with access did get the good stuff as opposed to s…

> Surely cannabis strains were bred and cultivated back in the day and people with access did get the good stuff as opposed to some seedy mexican brick weed with stems and leaves in it? No, it was universally worse, because those strains hadn't been bred yet. What you're doing is like assuming that some people in the 60s got to use the "good" computers.

Of course you didn't have stuff like White Widow or whatever in the 70s but getting better and stronger weed only requires you to grow enough plants and get enough variety that you can start noticing characteristics and then interbreeding and crossing strains to isolate them so your offspring express them reliably. You do not need high tech lab equipment to see which variety grows faster and produces more branching or bud sites or thicker buds or more thc glands etc.

If you just sow a field full of random seeds and just forget about them until harvest instead of maintaining them, removing the males, etc your quality will be worse.

Re: Congress just voted to legalize hemp

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Post by barrow-rider »

TheBeardKing wrote: post #23
gammateam wrote: post #5

The regulated psychoactive cannabis is way too strong for me. As long as its treated differently in its own licensing regime and establishments I think some form of education should accompany it, for consumers. Given generations of bad information. Its come up with others here in California, the THC products are REALLY strong and offputting for us casuals. The hybrids have potential

A better way to exact your dose is through edibles, like bite-sized candy. Most are 10 mg THC each, which is pretty low, but you can just eat part of a gummy if you want.

+1 for this. Edibles are great, and the 10mg cookies I used to get in WA were large, which made it easy to split them in half or quarters. 10mg would kick my ass as a casual user but 5mg was in the zone.

Takes an hour to hit you but that's not always a bad thing, and doesn't jack with my lungs.

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Post by smhenderson »

mc32 wrote: post #3
bitxbitxbitcoin wrote: post #2

Senator McConnell is not known for his support of medical or recreational marijuana legalization but I view this as a step in the right direction. Take that, DuPont!

I'm glad that mr "say not to anything drugs at all costs" Sessions was fired. We need more sensible drugs laws. Not saying make everything legal, but all things in moderation and commensurate, including punishment.

I agree but I don't think it will be much better if William Barr takes over. He was a big part of the War on Drugs when he served under G.H.W. Bush.

It's been a long time since then and people can change but I am not very optimistic for now.

Re: Congress just voted to legalize hemp

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Post by majewsky »

gammateam wrote: post #8
kylek wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s actually way, wayyy more nuanced than that unfortunately. THC is only one of a plethora of components at play (it’s been bred for higher and higher THC content for decades, mostly ignoring the other, more medicinal parts). Only recently have I started seeing products in dispensaries with cannabinoid/terpenoid profiles to give a more accurate picture of the effects, I think we’re going to start seeing more produc…

oh okay "THC/CBD/CBN/CBG/etc + specific terpenes" what? what would be a good place to have a primer about this, what is the public's understanding of this currently, especially in recreational legalized areas how do we get to more holistic and broader knowledge for consumers. I agree that locking people up and taking their children isn't a productive use of the state in response to marijuana, and I can perceive this…

I remember learning about the difference between THC and CBD/etc. from Kurzgesagt's video on Marihuana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP15q815Saw

Re: Congress just voted to legalize hemp

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Post by specialist »

ckluis wrote: post #22

Fantastic news for construction: hempcrete - https://www.google.com/search?q=hempcrete

Cool, thanks for link.

Tree hugger me keeps hoping bamboo and hemp sourced fibers displace most wood and plastic for most of modern society's short-lived tasks. Packaging, paper, hygiene, etc.

Re: Congress just voted to legalize hemp

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Post by kakarot »

14 wrote: post #6

What a disconnect from the population. State after state legalizing marijuana and congress moves to legalize hemp. At least at the state level people are being left alone to their own bidding.

When you understand that hemp's industrial value was the reason it was made illegal 100 years ago, and that now we have an exorbitant amount of politicians who truly believe the ilk their own kind shoveled out a century ago as a smoke screen, such as how getting high is so dangerous, and how we need to imprison blacks and mexicans for trying to alleviate themselves of the pain of manual labor, then it starts to make more sense.

We're at a point where we can allow industries who have been silently increasing lobbying support for hemp legalization to begin to take advantage of its industrial applications while maintaining our system of slavery and socioeconomic subjugation.

Re: Congress just voted to legalize hemp

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Post by pluma »

As a non-American I'm a bit baffled. Does this mean hemp was previously illegal?

In most of Europe cannabis is illegal but you can get hemp-infused drinks and food (though I personally don't care much for the taste), even energy drinks. Not to mention hemp-based textiles.

In Germany growing hemp is illegal for private individuals but commercial growers can cultivate it if they exceed a certain minimum plantation size. Sadly growing it for scientific use (rather than sourcing it from a large-scale grower) also requires official permission.

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