hemp

Imagine what advances we would have made if this war on drugs hadn't kept hemp out of our reach for so long.

Paper should be made from something like hemp, which can be replanted and harvested again later.

As mentioned elsewhere, it could be more efficient plants such as bamboo, or even sugarcane grasses, or hemp, for that matter.

\nIt's possible to be a hemp-wearing, tree-hugging hippie and be pro-death penalty - it also happens to be rare.

If there were any cars at all, they would be made of hemp, have built in pistol holsters instead of seatbelts, and be powered by Stirling engines burning moonshine.

The hemp-based devices yielded energy densities as high as 12 Watt-hours per kilogram, two to three times higher than commercial counterparts.

> You basically have federal US laws outlawing anything having to do with marijuana, ...On the theory that growing hemp in your garden is "interstate commerce".

Or will stores that sell marijuana products no longer be considered 'dispensaries'?It will be interesting to see if the federal government will even let a hemp based industry get started up at all.

If the words life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness dont include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isnt worth the hemp it was written on.- Terence McKenna

If you can create a better method to farm: vegetable oils, soy, rapeseed, jatropha, mahua, mustard, flax, sunflower, palm oil, hemp, field pennycress, Pongamia pinnata, or algae, you are going to earn serious money.

In the case of cannabis it was largely as a result of DuPont being unable to compete with industrial hemp, and leverage a little racist fear-mongering by borrowing the Mexican term marijuana to make it appear extra dangerous.