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  1. 20th October 2003, 00:20 #1
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    The hemp plant is one of the most versatile plants around. It can be used to make, paper, cloth and oil. The fruit can be eaten. Parts of it can give a person a high.
    At one time it was compulsory to grow a certain (about an acre I think) of hemp or flax in England and the American colonies. It was used as rope and sail-cloth. It makes better cloth then cotton, cleaner fuel then non-organic oil, and Ford once experimented with using it in his cars as both a seat covering and a fuel.
    It can be harvested four times a year, uses a heck of a lot less water, and doesn't require as many pesticides. It can be used as a pain killer and calmer.
    Added to which the WHO compared it to alcohol and tobacco and said it caused less damage then these other drugs.
    And yet this wonderful plant is condemned by the big business and the church in the USA.

    We must promote this plant as a clean green alternative to those other plants.

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    i wear a hemp necklace everday!
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    i wouldnt recommend anyone get high
    bad for your body in the long run
    people would be smoking their clothes if all were made out of hemp lol
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    I've always been looking for good hemp clothes, but they're all too expensive for what you get.
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    people would be smoking their clothes if all were made out of hemp lol
    I take it you have no idea what hemp is. Hemp and pot/weed/herb/mary j are two different plants. I watched an entire documentary and did research on it. The thing that gives weed its drug properties is a little thing called THC. Hemp has been selectively bred to contain little to no THC while having an increase in size and stalk fibers over the usual marijuana plant. Hemp is an amazing plant which can be used for many things including plastics, paper, fuel as well as the oil for dietary need. Hemp seed oil has a high level of some essential fatty acids found in few other sources.
    I strongly support the use of hemp, because of its many uses and itscheap and large production cabibilities. Hemp is your friend.
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    You do realise that this thread is from 2003 don't you? But not to worry, this is still relevant! So people, give your views this time around (seeing as you didn't last time ...).


    And actually, I don't really have anything to add to my first post, or to the post above. Hemp rocks!
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    I use hemp protein when I workout.

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    This has been a popular topic of discussion on this forum. My own views can be found in the first linked thread.

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    It can also be used as fuel.

    http://www.hempcar.org/indexOLD.html
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    This is bullshit. Lets face it, it would be used to smoke. I'm all for cannabis liberation, but i'm not for running a red herring on the state. Except for clothing fiber, its horribly inefficient at being a biofuel, etc.
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    Originally posted by omegaflare@April 17, 2007 08:40 pm
    This is bullshit. Lets face it, it would be used to smoke. I'm all for cannabis liberation, but i'm not for running a red herring on the state. Except for clothing fiber, its horribly inefficient at being a biofuel, etc.
    Who needs fuel when you got pot?

    Anyway, is the bud necessary for the biofuel? Becuase the fiber and bud can be used independent of one another.
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    Anyway, is the bud necessary for the biofuel?
    I think they rely mainly on the oils garnered from the plant. As for hemp biodiesel itself, it's not exactly the best form of biofuel out there due to the low energy yield.
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    Originally posted by omegaflare@April 18, 2007 02:40 am
    This is bullshit. Lets face it, it would be used to smoke. I'm all for cannabis liberation, but i'm not for running a red herring on the state. Except for clothing fiber, its horribly inefficient at being a biofuel, etc.
    Industrial hemp has been breed to have very little THC (so little that you would die of smoke inhalation before you got high).

    Also, not only is it good for clothing, it is used for other fibre (for, for example, paper), food, for cosmetics and many other things.

    Not only that I would like to see your sources about it being inefficient for biofuels.


    (I just found this http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/search/label/Hemp collection of "blog" posts on the matter.)
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    Read this, its long, but worth it

    i'm not angry that its illegal because it get you high. i'm just pissed off because it could benefit our planet so much
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    I wouldn't bother with or trust anything that comes from a site called Illuminati News.
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    its not connected with the illuminati (at least not this article), and all the stuff in there is true (at least the bulleted items)
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    from what i've read if u have a hemp specific strand (think that makes sense..lol) the THC content is so low like apathy said
    the amount of work to this would to all countries of the world would be immense...think of the gathering, textile industries, and all the other possible uses

    i also believe marijuana should be legalized/decriminalized...how can u justify the legality of alcohol and tobacco with all the problems caused by them both
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    This thread's been necroed twice now.
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    You'd have better luck trying to get high by smoking printer paper.

    Also, the common objection that people would hide marijuana in hemp fields is unfounded, because the plants would cross pollinate, making the pot worthless.
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    Originally Posted by Agora77
    You'd have better luck trying to get high by smoking printer paper.

    Also, the common objection that people would hide marijuana in hemp fields is unfounded, because the plants would cross pollinate, making the pot worthless.
    This.

    Many of the proponents of industrial hemp are pot smokers as well. But they don't realise that this would happen. Whoops .

    Oh, and to any folks who think people shouldn't smoke pot, why not?

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