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With this, if it passes, could we finally add hemp to our garden crops?
www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd
www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd
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Re: Hemp?
Tue, August 25, 2009 - 9:34 AM"garden crops"... riiiiiiight
That's like growing a few cotton shrubs ... useless unless there's fields of it (you may have missed the "Industrial" part in that summary). -
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Re: Hemp?
Tue, August 25, 2009 - 6:24 PM"Industrial" here more means drug free. But I agree that hemp is more useful in large fields. However hemp seed is a useful health food source and could be easily grown in small plots.
The point is that through most of human history hemp was also a drug plant. Now varieties have been bred that are drug free. This new proposed law would legally separate industrial (drug free) hemp from marijuana so that no drug law could be used to restrict the planting of hemp. And by the way, hemp is very deep rooted and thus useful in the reconstruction of old, hard, worn out soils. -
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Re: Hemp?
Mon, November 23, 2009 - 6:35 PM1 female cannabis plant can produce 1 lb of seed (when fully pollinated)
great composting plant, high in minerals like potassium, silica, magnesium, calcium etc -
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Re: Hemp?
Tue, November 24, 2009 - 9:26 AMcould I use hemp for feeding chickens? when I get some, that is. -
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Re: Hemp?
Wed, November 25, 2009 - 10:54 AMWhen you get some chickens, why not feed them something they like and you don't. Properly prepared hemp seed is delicious. Or you can press oil from them (seed, not chickens) and run your car. -
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Re: Hemp?
Wed, November 25, 2009 - 1:28 PMChickens love hemp seed, or so i hear.
They purportedly cause birds to sing more.
Hemp nuts are delicious, and you can eat them too.
You would need a lot of hemp seed to run your car though,
its not really feasible for an individual,
it would have to become commercially available somehow. -
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Re: Hemp?
Wed, November 25, 2009 - 2:46 PMDude, chickens love to eat rocks and oyster shells too... may want to exclude chicken food in the "list" of pros.
Hemp, good or bad, will always be controlled by the govt. (in the US anyway).. no amount of beneficial ranting will ever sway "THE MAN" into allowing us to farm hemp like we can soybeans or peanuts... even if hemp has more uses. -
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Re: Hemp?
Wed, November 25, 2009 - 6:42 PMAm I hearing a US citizen being prideful of US stupidity and corruption because it is OUR stupidity and corruption? Or just saying that in the US the people have no control over making the laws? Interesting point of view. If it is true, are you happy living under "THE MAN"? -
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Re: Hemp?
Wed, November 25, 2009 - 10:30 PMNo pride on that here, and no we really don't
have much of a say on laws, we may help appoint
individuals whom may or may not approve the laws we
would like, or not.
we're a republic, in the guise of democracy,
have been for over half a century.
Yes, living under the man sucks,
corporations control everything,
the dollar is ultimate king.
the only way to be free is to move out to
the middle of nowhere and hope the local
law doesn't come around,which is what most
people labeled hippies and radicals for their
beliefs in the us do.
we are totally heading for idiocracy the movie,
just the other day i found myself drinking energy drink,
eating doritos,wearing dr pepper pajamas
and watching people blow themselves
up and kick each others nuts, time of my life,
until i realized i was almost in that movie,maybe a few generations off.
I like monayyy!! -
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Re: Hemp?
Thu, November 26, 2009 - 6:59 AMYep, I live in the middle of nowhere. I can do pretty much what I please but I also have no protection from criminal activity other than my own latent hostility.
I don't think the small minds in Congress will legalize growing industrial hemp. But you could move to Canada and grow it there and have access to health care, too.
I'm working towards self sufficiency. Partly because I'm appalled at the state of our industrial food supply and partly because I don't want to be a part of the machine.
Dang! That sounds like a radical rant. I'm really just a middle aged hippie who designs embroideries for a living. -
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Re: Hemp?
Thu, November 26, 2009 - 10:07 AMIf all I wanted to do is grow hemp, I could move to the Ukraine or Romania where the people have the freedom to do so. I have lived for years in Costa Rica but moved here for other reasons than conditions in the US. But part of the reason I am staying here are the conditions in the US. There's more freedom here but it is also illegal to grow hemp. Figures.
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