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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 personjerry »

Dowwie wrote: post #16

There is already a wide variety of hemp strains and they are used for a variety of applications. Taller strains are for fiber. Shorter, flowering strains are used for CBD. There's a really wide range of applications for hemp but I'm not sure how many are economically viable. Processing requires water, energy, chemicals, etc. This is an exciting time for discovery.

Hemp's been used extensively in many industries for thousands of years, I would hardly say it's a "discovery": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp

Re: Congress just voted to legalize hemp

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Post by wavefunction »

nashashmi wrote: post #39
UI_at_80x24 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>hemp's industrial value was the reason it was made illegal 100 years ago Do you have a source for this? I would like to investigate this angle further.

It's a popular story in conspiracy circles. That various industries tried to ban hemp tp favor their own materials as a more performant substitute.

If the substitutes were more performant at acceptable costs then one might think they would have been adopted naturally.

Re: Congress just voted to legalize hemp

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Post by finnthehuman »

gammateam wrote: post #57
qwerty456127 wrote: post #11

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> The regulated psychoactive cannabis is way too strong for me. Why not just smoke a sufficiently small particle then?

Its determining what sufficiently small is: Any regulated shop is going to have clerks ambiguously asking you your tolerance level, as if we were all running around getting high for the last 20 years with illegal and consistent reliable sources - like they did. Then they bombard you with edibles and all kinda of concoctions, most of which are impossible to have an even distribution of THC in them. Smoking being the l…

>asking you your tolerance level, as if we were all running around getting high for the last 20 years with illegal and consistent reliable sources

If the question is that ambiguous, then your answer is simply "no tolerance."

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Post by Nasrudith »

foxyv wrote: post #52
Nasrudith wrote: post #46

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Doesn't the CO2 eventually return to the concrete when it cures and hardens making it sorta the reverse of crops in long term neutrality? (Generates CO2 on creation but retrieves it eventually as opposes to capturing but returning eventually.)

Most of the CO2 produced is the energy used to process it. Concrete is very energy intensive.

Huh I thought it was the Calcium Carbonate needing to be broken free. I guess that is more good news for clean energy - get that down (not a trivial task) and you only have to worry about that component.

Re: Congress just voted to legalize hemp

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Post by specialist »

shittyadmin wrote: post #53
specialist wrote: post #28

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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.

Isn't the whole bamboo thing just a sort of greenwashing? Sure, it grows fast, but it doesn't really grow more efficiently in terms of a resource consumption to output ratio than most other trees. Might have been here that I heard this: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-bad-environmentalism-is-... Unfortunately, some of the links out from there on the topic now appear broken.

EcoPlanet Bamboo claims to address the prior criticisms of using bamboo. Pretty cool if true.

http://www.ecoplanetbamboo.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecoplanet_Bamboo_Group

http://www.ecoplanetbamboo.com/fsc-certification

Re: Congress just voted to legalize hemp

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Post by jobigoud »

pluma wrote: post #30

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…

I buy hemp milk at the grocery store in the US.

Re: Congress just voted to legalize hemp

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Post by greenbee1981 »

Hemp and bamboo can change the world! EcoPlanet Bamboo has been doing just this in South Africa. www.ecoplanetbamboo.za.com - this farm is amazing to see how bamboo can regenerate the soil and be used for innovative products. Well managed hemp and bamboo plantations should be encouraged!

Re: Congress just voted to legalize hemp

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Post by greenbee1981 »

foxyv wrote: post #52
Nasrudith wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't the CO2 eventually return to the concrete when it cures and hardens making it sorta the reverse of crops in long term neutrality? (Generates CO2 on creation but retrieves it eventually as opposes to capturing but returning eventually.)

Most of the CO2 produced is the energy used to process it. Concrete is very energy intensive.

Bamboo can be used to hold a lot of CO2 and store it in long term products. The fiber is also being used in a concrete mix to reduce the carbon footprint and reduce weight etc.. Bamboo plantations can be great for the planet. www.ecoplanetbambooplantations.com
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