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- NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -2/+29I hope North Dakota can do it... We really need to get Hemp legalized again, for the sake of the farmers, and all the products hemp can be used for.
- tyler0is0sexy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+24Stick it to the cotton industry!!
- robato, on 10/11/2007, -2/+23You can find a wealth of information on cannabis hemp here:
http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=1347152&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1
Hemp is a food, a car, a suit, a medicine, a rope, a plastic, a FUEL, and many other things.
Using corn as fuel is wasteful, inefficient and causes far more problems than it solves. Corn can never sustain our economy; we'll always have to import oil from countries with which we fundamentally differ. Hemp, however, creates enough cellulose to feed our economy. Hemp gives a net energy gain as opposed to an energy loss with corn.
We can revitalize the small farmer by jump-starting the hemp industry, as hemp can be grown in even marginal soil conditions. It really is a fantastic plant.
Hemp for Victory! - acid0426, on 10/11/2007, -5/+25I think it's very important for crops......but legalize marijuana while you're at it.
- wetard57, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16Glad to see North Dakota in the news most people don't know where we are :/
- NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15Or? How about we legalize both? then again, if I was FORCED to choose one or the other... I'd say Hemp is more important.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11The first US flag was sewn by Betsy Ross from hemp.
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were both drafted on hemp paper.
Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were hemp farmers.
Benjamin Franklin operated one of the first paper mills in America, it processed hemp.
Francis Scott Key wrote the first verse of the “Star Spangled Banner” on a hemp envelope.
Abraham Lincoln lit his reading lamps with hemp oil.
The original colonists were required to grow hemp if they were to lay legal claim to farmland in the new world.
The American navy used hemp for up to 90% of their sails and rigging back before self-powered warships.
The USS Constitution warship carried more than 60 tons of hemp rigging.
During WWII America put forward a "Hemp for Victory" campaign, so necessary was the ship-rigging for the war effort:
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-117344919147932597
America was quite literally founded on hemp; nothing could be a more patriotic crop. - Jamihabs, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11I'm no expert on hemp, but I have heard that real hemp (grown for rope, paper and various other products) can be quite profitable, as it is easy to grow and quite resilient to drought and insects. It also has very little THC and would be of little interest to pot smokers. If all this is true, we should take advantage of this native plant.
- DustinR, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10I think marijuana is way more important, think about it you get benefits of hemp and you get high. Win win situation.
- swoosh_bnd, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9So true, which is sad. I was shocked to see North Dakota on digg in the first place!
- DeFex, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12"republican North Dakota found dead. it was not the oil companies, honest"
- itsme92, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9buried. It's people like you that give us Ron Paul supporters a bad name.
- DAVIBE, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were both big time hemp farmers, if im not mistaken. So I guess it would be patriotic.
- NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Oh I know... it's almost ridiculous to see all the Corn Biofuel commercials BP is putting out...
How can they so easily support Corn, when Hemp is the real solution?
With Corn, you can make biofuels, but it still costs a lot of energy to make it, so much in fact that it's pointless, you have to waste more oil just to make the corn ethanol and not to mention you cut into Corn food supplies, and even if you covered the country in corn you still couldn't create nearly enough energy.
Hemp on the other hand, has a much greater chance, as it produces more and better ethanol, more energy out than it takes to refine it. plus you don't cut into food supplies.
I email BP about this once... they never responded =/... oh well. - kilooneniner, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8It really helps to see a Republican supporting it. I know most Dems would go for it.
- kuzotz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6how come people confuse hemp with weed? I thought certain types of hemp was already legal.. I mean I have some hemp hand lotion for god's sake. I bought this at Walmart of all places.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Um...thanks for that. I'm sure google maps would have done just as well...and without all the worthless opinion interjected.
- kuzotz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Yea surely we should really give a damn about what people do with their free time even when no one is getting killed.
- ElectricKetchup, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5haha, I'm pretty sure he was making fun of Ron Paul supporters (which means he's trying to give them a bad name).
- kilooneniner, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7you say that like it's a bad thing
- VaporBro, on 10/26/2007, -1/+5Hemp is illegal to grow in the US. Products made with hemp are imported here from places where hemp is not criminalized (Like Canada for instance). This makes hemp products expensive. And I would never trust a hemp product from Walmart...
- drmangrum, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5There used to be tons of hemp farmers until the cotton and wool industries lobbied lawmakers to outlaw it under the guise of drug control.
- drmangrum, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6I hope they can do it. Hemp is far to useful a plant to not be exploited. We could see a boom in textiles, pharmaceuticals, etc, etc. Having more cheap fodder for livestock could help bring the skyrocketing cost of food down as well.
- rarson, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4What the *****?? People argue against hemp, like it's some kind of illihit drug that happens to get you high. Hemp doesn't get you high! Why the ***** SHOULDN'T it be legal?
This country really has it's head up it's ass sometimes. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Seems like the countries who smoke the most pot and/or are the most uninhibited about sex tend to not go crazy starting wars and ***** with people.
- Gabuzo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3No you don't. Not that kind of hemp anyway. Hemp used for fiber, medicine or oil have very low THC content.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp - kuzotz, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5borders the province of Manitoba.
- zspitfire04, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5*as I light my pipe, I salute to you george washington*
- kilooneniner, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4short supply of people in general, I guess
- Buelldozer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The banning of hemp had nothing to do with drugs and everything to do with industry. Hemp competed directly, and favorably, with the young plastics industry. Guess what plastic is made out of? :-D
Yes that is the simplified version, but I don't have time right now to put it all up. - NikoKun, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5I suppose, legalizing Marijuana automatically means Hemp would be legalized too. so yeah... ur right... XD
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3That shiny "submit comment" button was just too irresistible for you, wasn't it?
- cbiz, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Smoked a fatty with the mayor of a city here in the Czech Republic last night before going to a music festival. Try that in the USA:)
- scubasteve377, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Thats because BP (and all the other oil companies for that matter) don't really want ethanol or any alternative fuel to succeed. They make way too much money off of oil. Their little venture into corn oil is just smoke and mirrors to make their company look progressive and responsible, while behind the scenes they are working tirelessly to block any alternatives to gasoline.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3New land owners used to be *REQUIRED* to grow hemp in order to officially lay a claim to their farmland, the crop was so important to industry and the economy.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Are you wondering why you have to smoke so much to get any effect?
I bet you've smoked Oregano as well, haven't you? - rarson, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The problem with recreational drug use is that, somewhere along the line, other people started to think that they could dictate what I decide to put into my own body.
- kcasper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It is hard to legalize something that TV hosts giggle about when they are suppose to give fair coverage.
http://www.digg.com/offbeat_news/Industrial_Hemp_and_TV_coverage_giggle_factor_TV_hosts_act_stoned - firsttube, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Dugg for revolutionary headline.
- licoricewhip, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1fix the stinkin comment system...
- rarson, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Go to hell, fascist piece of *****!
And while you're at it, pull your head out of your ass and at least learn the difference between hemp and marijuana, idiot! - blaze4metal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Bush isn't from Texas.
- CannibalTom, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I have a grinder made out of a hemp/plastic mix material. It works well.
- cha2e, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@ KadsBaker
Lighten up. I was reading through digg and saw tons of other people saying "IMPEACH!" and getting dugg down. I thought it was funny and thought I'd poke at it. Wow, that makes dumb. I'm glad you're so smart. Also, I was legitimately asking.. Whats wrong with the lotion from walmart? - Buelldozer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Good morning from Central Wyoming!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Dugg down because you said "Digged"
- ElectricKetchup, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5It's easier to get it passed as just hemp for now. Once hemp is legal, marijuana will be easier to get passed. For this issue, it's better to take it one step at a time since hemp is way more important.
- LordSkywalker, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Interesting. I just watched the documentary "In Pot We Trust" on Showtime today. It talked about the uses of hemp. Check it out.
- Buelldozer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Cocaine isn't natural. It's refined.
- kilooneniner, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3oohhhh, time is going by really really really really slow.
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