Hemp
 

I've recently been doing a ton of research on hemp. I know it is cannabis sativa but I didn't know it has so little THC that it is not dangerous nor can you ever get high smoking the stuff. In fact, you'd blow your lungs out a long time before you got high.

Anyway, I got tired of all the Greenpeacers, Sierra Clubbers and the like promoting their brand of crap. The real answer to fixing the farm crisis, fuel crisis, food crisis and health crisis is hemp. Look up US Govt patent 6630507 and you'll see that the dirty bastards in Washington already know that CBD has the potential to cure Alzheimer's and dementia and epilepsy and other diseases.

CBD is the not psychotropic byproduct from hemp. I watched a video of a hempcrete company building a house out of all hemp. It seems if you replace the fiberglass insulation with hemp insulation people are more healthier. If you use hempcrete in the foundation and any other place you'd normally use concrete you have a stronger place.

I could go on for hours but won't. Yeay Tom! Anyway I think forums like this are a fantastic place to promote the waking up of people. Hemp can solve the unemployment problem as well. It has over 25000 uses. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin were all hemp farmers.

Yes, my signature element shows I sell hemp clothes and other hemp accessories. Big deal. We need to take a serious look at Mother Nature and use what she gives us especially a product like hemp. And, no, I don't smoke the stuff or eat MJ brownies.

Anyway that's my rant. We need the entrepreneur types that are members of and visit this forum to get involved. With all that brain power we could move the world back to when hemp was the king and not cotton.

If anyone would like to see its potential google The February 1938 issue of Popular Mechanics. If you can't find the article, let me know and I'll email it to you.

Thanks for reading my expression.

Tom

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Great pitch, Tom.

Why is there such negativity toward hemp? The plant, the fiber, the products. All tainted by this 'ooooh! Hands off!' attitude.

I think it is clear that it is high time (pun kind if intended) to rethink some things. To revive a tired business buzz phrase: Lets think outside the box.

Tom, love your page. I visited there this afternoon, before you posted this!

I was searching for your Senior Moments stuff that Ron mentioned.

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Robert,

Thank you for the nice words. My senior stuff is at:

http://senior2senior.org

Everything is free on the site with one exception. It is my Senior Pride magnetic ribbon. I sell it for $5 and it is the only fund raiser our Ministry uses. We don't ask for government money, foundation money or even a donation from members.

If there is anything useful for you, please take it. And, if you feel so inclined share it.

As for hemp, I might publish, on this forum, some of its uses. That way, the idea people may come up with programs that work. Like Don Alm said in one of his posts, some of those WSO's don't live up to their hype.

Here on the Pub, there ain't no hype, just doers. I have an idea for a hemp food product but didn't get a good feeling from some of the manufacturers I looked at. Since it is food and this is regulation central (FDA, FTC, etc.) I want to be sure everything not only gets off on the right foot but stays there. The DEA is pretty quick to send in its SWAT team to "protect the citizens".

Anyway, got long winded there when I just meant to give you the senior site.

Have a good day.

Great website, Tom!
 

Hi Tom,

I had a look at your website... I have no doubt your website has saved some lives...!

I like the web page on the three things to do to find out if someone is having a stroke. I didn't know those things. Stroke is pretty scary, unfortunately, I'm in a risk category (high blood pressure, for instance)...

Everyone should read that page, as it could save lives (as you say)!

http://www.senior2senior.org/strokeid.html

That first joke on your "jokes" page also made me laugh out loud! :)

I've heard about how hemp can be better, for example, as a building material, than what we use nowadays... I don't know that much about it, but I have a friend who's told me about this multiple times. (And no, he doesn't smoke the stuff...)

There's a single farm in Australia where hemp is legal to grow as a material, to make fabrics, or for the oil, etc...

http://www.hempfarm.com.au

I'm sure with the "other" uses of hemp becoming legalized in some states, the constructive uses of hemp could become more common too... I don't know that much about it, but I have heard of some of these things. (By the way, I have never smoked it, unless you count second-hand smoke at some parties I went to as a college student... I was very active in the student radio station as an undergrad, and that student radio crowd at my college liked to party...!)

Best wishes,

Dien

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Dien,

Thank you for the very nice words. Australia like the U.S. looks at hemp as an illegal drug. That's why there is only one "legal" farm in Oz and no "legal" farms in the U.S.

On the other hand, we have universities that, Mississippi for example, have been growing it and researching for years. Several states have passed laws that make it legal for farmers to grow but the farmers still have to walk through the DEA licensing process.

Colorado, Washington and California allow the growing and selling of cannabis sativa with THC. This is the psychotropic chemical. My emphasis is on cannabis sativa with CBD. This is the medical chemical and WON'T make you high no matter how much you smoke.

Here is a link to a cannabis saved my baby story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz394eGUjhb

Notice it has a UK address. There are other stories like this one but the pictures in this story make it worth reading.

You can also read about a "pot" grower in CO who has devoted an entire grow to CBD cannabis because of what it did for a young girl suffering from seizures.

The U.S. government is well aware of its benefits. Read USG patent #6630507 and tell me the creeps don't know the difference between THC and CBD. And, that is on both sides of the world.

Anyway, thanks again for the great words.

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Yup.....I spent 12 years in rural Colorado and knew many ranchers who told me that "Hemp" made the BEST rope for lariats and other uses but they couldn't use it because it was illegal.

Now that MaryJane is legal in Coloraddy....the ranchers can now use Hemp in their lariats and ropes BUT.....from my experience seeing friends (in Chicago) as I was growing up.....I KNOW that MJ is the first step to Drug Addiction and from my experience...I'd rather have Hemp be illegal than reading about zillions of kids stumbling around in a stupor.

Google "Amsterdam" and see photos of what city parks in a large city look like (where ANY drug use is permitted) and.....imagine cities in Coloraddy looking the same!

"HIP HIP HOORAY..... LIBERALISM WINS AGAIN!"

IT's only a matter of time! If you're around in 20 yrs YOU will NOT believe what our, once great country, looks like.

Don Alm.....sad to see the "good" people in America just sitting back and doing nothing as the "Libbies" take over!

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Don,

Thanks for your comments. However I can see they are based on one side of the cannabis tree. I thought I made it plain that cannabis sativa produced 2, count 'em, 2 different chemicals.

One is THC. This is the stuff you are writing about. Yep, it'll get you higher than a kite. I AIN'T talking about that.

The 2nd chemical is CBD. This IS the side I am talking about. It has the medicinal byproducts. BTW, hemp being a cousin of MJ has been arrested for being a relative of the cannabis joystick: THC.

That would be like getting arrested because your cousin robbed the gas station. Might as well convict both Alm's because, after all, they are related.

Sorry you experienced druggies. I have a feeling we all have experienced druggies and will continue to experience druggies for as long as we are alive. They ain't going away.

Here are some facts you may not know about hemp:

1) Hemp is among the oldest industries on the planet, going back more than 10,000 years to the beginnings of pottery. The Columbia History of the World states that the oldest relic of human industry is a bit of hemp fabric dating back to approximately 8,000 BC.

2) Presidents Washington and Jefferson both grew hemp. Americans were legally bound to grow hemp during the Colonial Era and Early Republic. The federal government subsidized hemp during the Second World War and U.S. farmers grew about a million acres of hemp as part of that program.

3) Hemp Seed is nutritious and contains more essential fatty acids than any other source, is second only to soybeans in complete protein (but is more digestible by humans), is high in B-vitamins, and is a good source of dietary fiber. Hemp seed is not psychoactive and cannot be used as a drug.

4) The bark of the hemp stalk contains bast fibers, which are among the Earth's longest natural soft fibers and are also rich in cellulose; the cellulose and hemicellulose in its inner woody core are called hurds. Hemp stalk is not psychoactive. Hemp fiber is longer, stronger, more absorbent and more insulative than cotton fiber.

5) According to the Department of Energy, hemp as a biomass fuel producer requires the least specialized growing and processing procedures of all hemp products. The hydrocarbons in hemp can be processed into a wide range of biomass energy sources, from fuel pellets to liquid fuels and gas. Development of biofuels could significantly reduce our consumption of fossil fuels and nuclear power.

6) Hemp grows well without herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides. Almost half of the agricultural chemicals used on U.S. crops are applied to cotton.

7) Hemp produces more pulp per acre than timber on a sustainable basis, and can be used for every quality of paper. Hemp paper manufacturing can reduce waste-water contamination. Hemp's low lignin content reduces the need for acids used in pulping, and its creamy color lends itself to environmentally friendly bleaching instead of harsh chlorine compounds. Less bleaching results in less dioxin and fewer chemical by-products.

8) Hemp fiber paper resists decomposition, and does not yellow with age when an acid-free process is used. Hemp paper more than 1,500 years old has been found. Hemp paper can also be recycled more times than wood based paper.

9) Hemp fiberboard produced by Washington State University was found to be twice as strong as wood-based fiberboard .

10) Eco-friendly hemp can replace most toxic petro-chemical products. Research is being done to use hemp in manufacturing biodegradable plastic products: plant-based cellophane, recycled plastic mixed with hemp for injection-molded products, and resins made from the oil, to name just a very few examples.

Like I said, this is from the CBD side of the cannabis tree. I'd rather experience these benefits than fall prey to the lunacy of marijuana being a gateway drug that will have all of our children stumbling around in a stupor. It has been around a long time and hasn't fulfilled that phony prophecy. That line was taken straight out of Reefer Madness a government propaganda film put out by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in the '30s. The chief of the bureau was a pure 100% teatotaling prohibitionist blinded by bigotry.

Here is the real kick in the ass - The CBD in HEMP negates the THC those poor stumbling stuporized children are in no matter how long they've been smoking THC. Imagine that. One cousin can function as a caregiver for the other. Who wudda thought it?

Oh yeah, you already have natural CBD receptors in your body. So even you have it in your body. Are you stumbling around in a stupor?

I could go on for hours but thought this little bit of info may help. Since I am neither a libbie nor a democrat nor a marijuana smoking stuporized child nor a government camp follower I thought I'd present the other side of the issue so people can understand it.

BTW, kind sir, read USG Patent 6630507 and see what the scientists say about CBD. Now you don't have to do any of the things I mention I realize. However, if you do, you may be in a better position to help those you know who smoke the whacky tobacky.

Just my 2 cents...

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My "Point" was.....no matter what the difference is in "Hemp"...when I was in Coloraddy....the "Authorities" (who did NOT know the diff) were refusing to allow "Hemp Rope" to be made or sold!

So....maybe NOW....the "authorities" will allow Hemp Rope to be sold to ranchers....because they will KNOW that "Hemp-Rope" is the best for Ranchers.

Don Alm.....

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Must be some stupid authorities since buying the stuff has always been legal, growing it was made illegal in the 30s. You can buy it online from any number of sites. Hell, I'll sell it to anybody who wants it. Oh well, guvmint people get paid regardless of what they know or say. BTW, my wife grew up on the 3rd largest sheep ranch in Montana. Guess what kind of rope they used...