DISQUS

jsknow · 1 year ago

The best thing we can do is get the government off their drug trip and grow a crop that works. Don't let them lie to you, there is plenty of farm land. We have over 100 million total farm acres in the USA and only use about half. The half that's not being planted is more than enough to grow ALL our fuel. Not only that but the government is still paying farmers not to plant. Watch the video titled "HEMP FUEL Can Supply All Our Energy Needs" and read the article titled "Marijuana Facts The Government Does Not Want You To Know" on the website referenced at the bottom of this post.
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Hemp requires no pesticides, no herbicides, and only moderate amounts of fertilizer.
Source: MARIJUANA AND HEMP THE UNTOLD STORY
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Hemp can produce several different kinds of fuel. In the 1800's and 1900's hempseed oil was the primary source of fuel in the United States and was commonly used for lamps and other oil energy needs. The diesel engine was originally designed to run on hemp oil because Rudolf Diesel assumed that it would be the most common fuel. Hemp is also the most efficient plant for the production of methanol. It is estimated that, in one form or another, hemp grown in the United States could provide up to ninety percent of the nation's entire energy needs.
Source: Schaffer Library of Drug Policy
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Hemp is 4 times more efficient than corn as biofuel. Hemp pellets can be used to produce clean electricity.
... so powerful it could replace every type of fossil fuel energy product (oil, coal, and natural gas).
... This plant is the earth's number one biomass resource or fastest growing annual plant for agriculture on a worldwide basis, producing up to 14 tons per acre. This is the only biomass source available that is capable of producing all the energy needs of the U.S. and the world...
Hemp will produce cleaner air and reduce greenhouse gases. When biomass fuel burns, it produces CO2 (the major cause of the greenhouse effect), the same as fossil fuel; but during the growth cycle of the plant, photosynthesis removes as much CO2 from the air as burning the biomass adds, so hemp actually cleans the atmosphere. After the first cycle there is no further loading to the atmosphere...
Source: USA Hemp Museum
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tana · 1 year ago

I totally agree with the last comment. And the best thing is, with hemp oil, unlike corn-based ethanol, we would not be using food products to fuel our cars, and therefore would not be contributing to skyrocketing food prices.

The question is: how to wake our congress up? There is such an entrenched belief that cannabis is baaaaaad, that sensible arguments fall by the wayside. For me, the final nail in the coffin of absurdity was discovering that the United States Government filed for and was awarded a patent on the medical use of cannabis. (Yup, its patent number 6.630,507). This, by the same government that insists that cannabis remain as a Schedule I drug, meaning , by definition, it has no medical value. Hypocrisy? Hedging one's bets? Who knows. But I do know that if every member of Congress was sent a copy of this patent, they might at least vote yes on the this year's upcoming Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment which would protect medical cannabis users from Federal prosecution.

Then maybe, we could begin to talk sensibly about once again growing industrial hemp.