Mon Jan 14, 2013, 01:43 PM

What are your feelings about industrial hemp? [View all]

I think we really need to start growing hemp on a wide basis. When grown for food, fuel and fiber, it's probably the single best renewable source of biomass available. Growing hemp on a widespread basis could fuel a resurgence in family farming, promote a cleaner environment, and would stop the need to cut down old growth forests for fiber.

That's my opinion, what's yours?

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What are your feelings about industrial hemp? [View all]	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	OP
the cotton lobby will block legalization via its prostitute politicians nt	msongs	Jan 2013	#1
Well, HEarst ran the original smear campaign because he owned so much of the wood industry	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#3
So... it was a conspiracy?	RobertEarl	Jan 2013	#14
Nope, not a conspiracy at all	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#15
And you were almost free.....	RobertEarl	Jan 2013	#22
Dude, read the congressional record	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#24
Not to mention the petrochemical industry	Cirque du So-What	Jan 2013	#11
Hell, you can make PLASTIC from Hemp.	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#12
Hence the opposition	Cirque du So-What	Jan 2013	#16
Iowa corn growers	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#21
It should be utilized, the outlawing of hemp was/is ludicrous.	Uncle Joe	Jan 2013	#2
It was racism that prompted making it illegal, too.	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#6
In fact, with that in mind.....	AverageJoe90	Jan 2013	#84
its a great product	samsingh	Jan 2013	#4
It insured we would win World War II	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#8
how did it get so ignored over the decades	samsingh	Jan 2013	#9
Not ignored, suppressed by the anti-"marijuana" porpaganda.	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#10
this may be the time to change all that suppression	samsingh	Jan 2013	#68
My father grew it during WWII	Cirque du So-What	Jan 2013	#13
What's grown for fiber is nothing at all like what's grown for drugs.	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#19
You know that and I know that	Cirque du So-What	Jan 2013	#23
it looks so similar thought...	wildbilln864	Jan 2013	#42
Enjoyed the movie	GiveMeFreedom	Jan 2013	#39
If the hippies are fer it, I'm agin it.	Comrade Grumpy	Jan 2013	#5
It's a travesty that it isn't being grown on an industrial scale n/t	arcane1	Jan 2013	#7
It makes a great heavy fabric.	NutmegYankee	Jan 2013	#17
Canada is having at it!	RandiFan1290	Jan 2013	#18
Yes.	polly7	Jan 2013	#26
I think it's a shame that it's not being grown already on a widespread basis.	Arkansas Granny	Jan 2013	#20
It's a miracle plant	RussBLib	Jan 2013	#25
I posted this in post 67, people in Colorado seem to be getting serious.	MissMarple	Jan 2013	#69
I challenge anyone to tell us one negative thing about Hemp. It's not only positive, it's BETTER	patrice	Jan 2013	#27
The recreational cannabis legislation in Colorado allows up to five plants in a locked room indoors.	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#29
Scalability in particular is a VERY fine feature of Hemp. nt	patrice	Jan 2013	#30
That's the beauty of the plant	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#31
Scalability also creates opportunities for co - operation BETWEEN enterprises, so individuals	patrice	Jan 2013	#33
My feelings are that it will be legal before 2014	tridim	Jan 2013	#28
Canada is building cars out of hemp like Henry Ford did many years back	think	Jan 2013	#32
I saw the Ford hemp car video. He pounded a hammer on a fender	lob1	Jan 2013	#62
there was a more recent "hemp car"	green for victory	Jan 2013	#75
We're already importing it from Canada; would be better to grow what we need here.	eShirl	Jan 2013	#34
I'll try anything once. n/t	tabasco	Jan 2013	#35
BWAH!	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#36
"Industrial Hemp" sounds like it would leave a metalic taste in your mouth.	Spitfire of ATJ	Jan 2013	#37
Well, it's for manufacturing products	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#38
"pharmaceutical cannabis" to me sounds like it's designed to do nothing.	Spitfire of ATJ	Jan 2013	#71
"pharmaceutical cannabis", "medical marijuana". Same shit, different words.	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#72
I prefer anything that makes scents.	Spitfire of ATJ	Jan 2013	#82
It gave me a really, really nasty headache.	Adsos Letter	Jan 2013	#40
I'd love to ditch all the plastics	libodem	Jan 2013	#41
I think it could replace them all	MynameisBlarney	Jan 2013	#45
I think they are the ones who lobby against growing it	libodem	Jan 2013	#48
Oh yeah	MynameisBlarney	Jan 2013	#49
It's crazy	libodem	Jan 2013	#55
Indeed.	MynameisBlarney	Jan 2013	#57
Total fools	libodem	Jan 2013	#61
Money.	MynameisBlarney	Jan 2013	#63
Your feeling on this	MynameisBlarney	Jan 2013	#43
Good stuff, it is ciminal how the govt treats hemp.	Rex	Jan 2013	#44
I had called my Senator and told him it should be legallized	Angry Dragon	Jan 2013	#46
No problem here.	Buzz Clik	Jan 2013	#47
Having read many many articles about it	MynameisBlarney	Jan 2013	#51
Well, perfect plants tend to be planted in monoculture.	Buzz Clik	Jan 2013	#53
Good point	MynameisBlarney	Jan 2013	#58
"For it"	War Horse	Jan 2013	#50
LEGALIZE IT NOW!!! nt	99th_Monkey	Jan 2013	#52
I couldn't get that much of a buzz from it.	Major Nikon	Jan 2013	#54
It's being discussed here in Kentucky. We used to have a healthy hemp industry.	alfredo	Jan 2013	#56
Termite resistant, hurricane strength residential lumber.	Blue State Bandit	Jan 2013	#59
It would certainly solve a lot of problems.	CommoFreq	Jan 2013	#60
If it does anything to put a dent in how corn is taking over I am for it...	Kalidurga	Jan 2013	#64
Timber, corn, cotton, plastics, and oil industry wouldn't be happy about it,	Egalitarian Thug	Jan 2013	#65
It's Constitutional	IDemo	Jan 2013	#66
We may be growing it here in Colorado this year.	MissMarple	Jan 2013	#67
Agree 110%	deathrind	Jan 2013	#70
Just another industrial plant product. n/t	OneTenthofOnePercent	Jan 2013	#73
ALL of it needs to be legal.	Warren DeMontague	Jan 2013	#74
I have a hemp shirt.	HooptieWagon	Jan 2013	#76
the problem is that there is no science allowed in the USA, even though hemp in Canada is thriving	farminator3000	Jan 2013	#77
I have a copy of The Emperor Wears No Clothes	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#78
they're still working on the species thing, i think. one of the best things for hemp would be	farminator3000	Jan 2013	#79
that train is leaving the station	green for victory	Jan 2013	#80
Motherfuckers	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#81
It's great for the environment and highly useful, too.	AverageJoe90	Jan 2013	#83
agreed. and it would create a new cash crop for farmers	RainDog	Jan 2013	#85