[rollei_list] Re: OT - Marijuana (was: Cost of LF (was: Aust...
- From: Ardeshir Mehta <ardeshir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:48:14 -0400
On Thursday, April 21, 2005, at 09:42 AM, Bob Shell wrote:
> On Thursday, April 21, 2005, at 09:22 AM, Ardeshir Mehta wrote:
>
>>> Henry Ford demonstrated that cars can be made of, and run on, hemp.
>>
>> Marijuana ... ?
>
> No, not the same thing. Industrial hemp, which is grown for fiber and
> oil in many countries, is not the same plant. Industrial hemp has
> almost no THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, and you can't get
> high from smoking it. You can find hemp growing wild in many parts of
> the USA as leftovers from when it used to be grown commercially. I saw
> lots of it growing on the borders of cornfields in Iowa when I drove
> through there once. It is much more practical to make paper from hemp
> than from wood. Trees take years to get big enough to harvest. Hemp
> can be harvested every year. Hempseed oil has many uses, not the least
> of which would be as fuel for diesel engines.
> Bob
Ah! Thanks.
I hate to use paper except when I have no other choice, fearing that it
has come from the chopping down of trees. But if it were labelled "made
from hemp" I'd have no objection!
Cheers/
Ardeshir <http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir>
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