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28th March 2010, 14:22
This may sound silly at first and it might well be but its something I've been thinking about a lot recently.
Cannabis in all its strains is easy to grow. It can be smoked as a recreational drug, leading to a soft and relaxing effect which soothes stress and eases many pains, from emotional pain to aches, bruises, and even chronic joint pains.
Aside from the recreational properties of weed, it can be used to produce paper, clothes, food (not like hash brownies, non-THC flours and grains can be produced from some hemps), rope, even possibly paper based boarding such as drywall.
To grow cannabis you need grow lamps, neutral PH soil and empty space. Apart from water thats about it. Lots of brownfield space, including desolate factories and warehouses could be used for hemp production. A weed plant can grow in as little as 8 weeks. Using hydroponics and a professional set up tonnes of weed could be easily produced, sustainably.
Legalising weed would lead to less arrests relating to the drug, the decriminalisation of it would take it away from dealers as a profitable income thus reducing the ability of weed to be used as a "gateway drug". The UK could participate in weed tourism much like Amsterdam, bringing in foreign money.
And this method of economic sustenance based off weed wouldn't have to stop at weed. Tomatoes and other vegetables can be easily grown with hydroponics in warehouses and factories for a huge yield. Think about it like battery farming, but of vegetables. Imagine a huge skyscraper, like the financial ones in the city, filled with hydroponics- it could feed so many people with its food producing capabilities. And as all it uses is electricity it could be fuelled by wind.
We need to be self sustainable, growing in the urban areas on a massive scale could help achieve this. The potential capacity for food growth, with investments in renewable energy and energy saving is amazing.
Potential idea?
Cannabis in all its strains is easy to grow. It can be smoked as a recreational drug, leading to a soft and relaxing effect which soothes stress and eases many pains, from emotional pain to aches, bruises, and even chronic joint pains.
Aside from the recreational properties of weed, it can be used to produce paper, clothes, food (not like hash brownies, non-THC flours and grains can be produced from some hemps), rope, even possibly paper based boarding such as drywall.
To grow cannabis you need grow lamps, neutral PH soil and empty space. Apart from water thats about it. Lots of brownfield space, including desolate factories and warehouses could be used for hemp production. A weed plant can grow in as little as 8 weeks. Using hydroponics and a professional set up tonnes of weed could be easily produced, sustainably.
Legalising weed would lead to less arrests relating to the drug, the decriminalisation of it would take it away from dealers as a profitable income thus reducing the ability of weed to be used as a "gateway drug". The UK could participate in weed tourism much like Amsterdam, bringing in foreign money.
And this method of economic sustenance based off weed wouldn't have to stop at weed. Tomatoes and other vegetables can be easily grown with hydroponics in warehouses and factories for a huge yield. Think about it like battery farming, but of vegetables. Imagine a huge skyscraper, like the financial ones in the city, filled with hydroponics- it could feed so many people with its food producing capabilities. And as all it uses is electricity it could be fuelled by wind.
We need to be self sustainable, growing in the urban areas on a massive scale could help achieve this. The potential capacity for food growth, with investments in renewable energy and energy saving is amazing.
Potential idea?