JonReeeeed

there is no way hemp is a solution to fucking oil.... if it were that simple it would be done no matter how bad people didn't want people getting high and sitting around fucking comatose every day....

i can't believe people are still reading this garbage. i can't believe people are still writing this garbage. this sort of obviously false propaganda worked like 10+ years ago. not anymore.

ChangingPerspectives

This is one of the most overlooked, yet wildly important issues in the cannabis debate. I know many scoff at the idea, largely because of decades of constant and subtle programming, but hemp can quite literally change the world, should it actually be used in place of all the products it can replace, and make a better more durable product. But yeah, lets just keep poisoning, polluting and destroying the world so some corporations don't lose money, and people are aren't forced to find new jobs in the new fields. God forbid!

Waiyu_Dudat

CBD also does something to opiate receptors where people need less opiates for pain reduction or it can help those with opiate withdrawal. Science hasn't figured out the details of mechanism but it's pretty easy to find information regarding cbd as an opiate replacement in practice.

EloquentOgre

Tell me about it. I have a spinal cord injury that leaves me in constant, crippling pain. I have to use opiates to even be able to get out of bed and get around the house (and barely at that on the worst days). I never touched weed in 40+ years of life, until it was legalized in my state, but given my condition I was desperate to find better pain management, so I finally gave in.

It was a godsend. It complimented my regular pain management beautifully. I could get around better, I could sleep on a regular sleep schedule, I wasn't feeling like throwing up constantly, my hands weren't as shakey, the pain was just significantly, wonderfully reduced.

Then my doctor's office implemented a contract for patients who receive opiates. No marijuana use allowed - in a state where it is LEGAL. We get tested randomly, and regularly for its use. Fucking insanity.

When I could use it - and honestly in rather small amounts, I was feeling psychologically and physically so much better, I felt almost content with my lot, I felt a sense of hope and optimism, rather than the dread and gloom the pain and debilitating effects of my injury brought me to soak in. I am left in pain and again barely functioning, and without hope. And worse, with a feeling of betrayal, and contempt for the health care system itself.

It's horrible beyond words, it truly is.

Waiyu_Dudat

Then my doctor's office implemented a contract for patients who receive opiates. No marijuana use allowed - in a state where it is LEGAL. We get tested randomly, and regularly for its use. Fucking insanity.

More than insanity. They are sane psychopaths. They would rather sell more opiates and have you suffering than actually have you improve.

I'm very sorry for your condition and I'm definitely in the boat of fighting to provide a high quality THC or CBD product for people exactly in your position.

I'm a health nut. My whole day is dedicated to improving the health of something, in one fashion or another. No, I'm not a stupid hippy living in idealism. I'm a scientist that tests things himself rather than listening to an authority.

I don't know how much longer it will be legal, but have you heard of kratom? It's another opiate replacement that if you got your hands on, you could get away from the medical system. I'd gander that weed + kratom would be a godsend and get you out of their clutches. However, there's always talk of banning it, so maybe we'll see people growing it indoors more. I dunno. Makes me sad that the system is so dedicated their monopoly that they can't allow for a little competition. Faggots.

God bless you and your pain. I hope you can overcome.

Amin_Yabhuti

Are there any places you can find pure cbd that doesn't contain any thc? Im in a legal state, but get monthly random screens. I've seen a few sketchy "pure cbd crystal" websites, but can't trust my job security to advertisements. I would guess that nothing short of mass spectometry could ensure pureness, and I don't know who to trust or if it's even possible to sufficiently separate the oils

Waiyu_Dudat

If you're in a legal state, you should be able to find from the retailer a product that has already undergone testing and potency analysis.

You'll never get 0 thc. It's determined by genetics. The cbd/thc ratio can be at any extreme, but there will still be some. A good friend of mine is growing hemp with 8-12% cbd and .1-.3% thc and this has taken him about 5 years of selective breeding to get it that low.

If your job tests you frequently and will fire you over trace thc, you are kinda SOL. Even CBD in large enough amounts can overload the liver and start to metabolize some of it into THC. It's dumb, but that's the way they are playing this game.

dooob

Oil, plastic, clothes, paper... All can be made from one plant, eco-friendly, even the plastic.

Fibbideh

Psychoactive/illegal or not, both are used as a coping mechanism for dealing with your shitty life instead of making it better if used in excess. The difference, in that respect, is that one is a literal poison that will kill you when taken in excess and the other will make you melt into your couch for a few hours and then want taco bell at 3 am.

I'm not all "dude weed" because I use neither, but one seems worse than the other.

pnwpatriot97

It can get rid of cotton, steel, timber, petroleum and more. Of course it's a threat to those in power. It would ruin (((their))) stranglehold of the USA.

1moar

That's the lunacy. Why not make it yours; like the cotton, steel, timber, et al? Boggles the mind.

lopan

William Randolph Hearst

Damnpasswords

Non psychoactive?

csicskageci

Idiot, hemp that does not contain THC (many strains) is not illegal and is widely grown for precisely these industrial purposes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp

RubberHammer

Hemp was outlawed along with pot. Only semi-recently has growing hemp been allowed again. This requires explicit permission from the government to do so. The majority of all hemp used in the US today is grown outside the US.

Technically it's not legal. You simply get a waiver from the government which allows you to grow what is otherwise an illegal crop.

Bigglesworth45

That is the reason it's still illegal. It was originally outlawed due to its ability to be made into paper. And the threat that was to a certian newspaper man's land holdings.

Rellik88

"Brought to buy Budweiser"

Crow_T_robocop

Sure it can. That's why--instead of regulating hemp production and making/saving trillions of dollars by producing our own petroleum-based products with hemp instead, the government continues to buy oil from Middle Eastern countries, and companies spend billions to find new sources of oil. Or,, that's why poor countries with no access to oil, who would have nothing to lose and everything to gain by creating a hemp oil industry have never done so in the history of the world.

KawMiZe

Would it be enough to cover demand? How much square acreage would you need? they could conceivably replace corn with it.

Love_Monger

But dude. Weed!

lexsird

Hey, let's outlaw this plant that makes medicine, food, oil out of thin air, and has a fiber that can make rope, cloths, paper and god knows what else.

Waiyu_Dudat

It removes heavy metals from the ground. Hemp and cannabis are both biodynamic accumulators. They leave the ground healthier than when they went in.

As opposed to wheat, cotton, and other grains (seeds), which leave the soil depleted without additional care.

tibstibs

It also makes you feel good when you smoke the flowers, clearly a massive public health hazard. Can't have people feeling good from anything other than alcohol.

11343936?

Alcohol AND pharmaceuticals. Nothing else.

Whizwit21

Down with livers and kidneys! who needs em!

WhyNoDonuts

Don't forget about cigarettes, they're legal too!

Cheesebooger

Clothes made from hemp last far longer than clothes made from cotton

RubberHammer

Most people prefer the feel of cotton. But for outer wear it's less likely to be an issue. Especially for something like a cotton/hemp blend.

Monsantos_Schlong

Hemp/cotton blends are strong af

RubberHammer

Interesting. I've never felt a hemp/cotton blend. Only felt hemp. Does it feel like cotton or like hemp?

Monsantos_Schlong

Kinda hard to explain, a cousin I rarely get to see has a shirt with the blend but you tell there's hemp in it

Hall_of_Cost

My guess is it feels like a mix between the two.

RubberHammer

lol. Thanks for that. Thanks for confirming my imagination with your own imagination.

KILLtheRATS

But it legal in a lot of states

TheCompanionCube

growing a plant to reduce dependence on OPEC oil would be very useful to the usa

Naught405

Yea worked with some people trying to make an ultra durable hemp lignin plastic. that got shut down so fast it wasn't even funny.

RubberHammer

This is actually the source of most "ditch weed." Which is also why you're not supposed to smoke it.

Henry Ford's attempted use of hemp for plastic body panels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srgE6Tzi3Lg

Hey_Sunshine

Whoa, so cheech and chongs weed van was based on a real car

Naught405

Yep, we have a patch in Burlington, VT that the police come and cut down every once in a while and then make a big show about busting hippies in the community gardens. It's actually from the early Winooski River Valley farms planted by the likes of Ethan Allen.

spherical_cube

Nah, the initial reason? Niggers. Sure, dass raciss but I can understand why they wanted to keep the darkies away. The sustaining reason? Beer brewers didn't want the competition. Why it finally started getting legalized? Too many people had already smoked it and overran the breweries' money.

Every law creates a constituency that benefits from its existence.

40yearsoftrees

And boy can we ever use a replacement for oil. Also, I heard Martha Washington made a bad ass Hemp seed pie.

Poohwhisperer

Hempcrete sounds cool

Snoochie-Boochies

And it grows like a weed.

old_grumpy_fucker

Truth.

ThisIsMyRealName

Probably costs more than crude does though.

old_grumpy_fucker

Nope. It's cheaper. And the fiber has other uses.

ibepokey

hemp also cycles faster than other crops, 4x yearly harvest. there are so many things going for hemp, but our govt demonized it.

old_grumpy_fucker

Even the smokable kind is useful. There was some company in th US NW that was working on fiberboard (for construction) from the stalks. It was stronger and cheaper than chipboard.

HarveyHarveyJones

Pros and cons. As far as i knew hemp wasnt illegal at all. It's why you can buy thise shitty hemp drinks and hemo rope.

ibepokey

not illegal to buy, but illegal to grow in the USA.

USA is one of the largest importers of hemp, and the largest industrialized nation where growing hemp is illegal. only within the past couple years hemp was allowed to be grown in the US, under very restrictive regulations.

you can't just grow some hemp in your yard most places in the US. this falls under the 'drugs are bad, m'kay'

you CAN buy the shit out of hemp products all day long in the US. hemp products aren't illegal, but the plant is, lol.