9th Circuit Court: Hemp Is Not Marijuana

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2004-02-08 03:14pm

Now, maybe the cultivation of hemp in the US can begin again, decades after the anti-pot craze of the 1930s destroyed an entire industry.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2004-02-08 03:36pm

Good. Nice to see the Judicial branch remind the Executive branch that they're not there to make the laws...

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2004-02-08 03:42pm

It seems like the activist judges are at it again, going against the will of the Americans.

:: applauds the 9th Circuit Court ::

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2004-02-08 04:00pm

Quick, better pass a Constitutional amendment!

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-02-08 04:06pm

Yeah, this sounds like the 9th Circuit Court. Good for them.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-02-08 07:34pm

Way to go, 9CC!

Replacement for Crude Oil, here we come!

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-02-08 07:37pm

Iceberg wrote:maybe the cultivation of hemp in the US can begin again, decades after the anti-pot craze of the 1930s destroyed an entire industry.

Didn`t they use hemp during WWII?

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2004-02-08 07:41pm

Montcalm wrote:
Iceberg wrote:maybe the cultivation of hemp in the US can begin again, decades after the anti-pot craze of the 1930s destroyed an entire industry.
Didn`t they use hemp during WWII?

Yes, but mostly imported Canadian hemp, which is where 99+ percent of the hemp in the US today comes from.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-02-08 10:13pm

Once you wear a hemp shirt it's very hard to go back. I'm wearing a nice red one right now.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-02-08 11:42pm

List virtues of Hemp, please? (Or just a link...) I know it makes great rope, but clothes and...replacement for crude? :

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Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2004-02-08 11:44pm

It's cheap. At least I think so.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-02-08 11:45pm

Chardok wrote:List virtues of Hemp, please? (Or just a link...) I know it makes great rope, but clothes and...replacement for crude? ::

Some of the more overblown claims of the pro-hemp/marijuana crowd.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-02-08 11:48pm

Chardok wrote:List virtues of Hemp, please? (Or just a link...) I know it makes great rope, but clothes and...replacement for crude? ::

I have no idea about the crude thing. The clothes are insulated well, especially in cold weather, it keeps the heat in well. Feels nice on the skin and is stronger than as usual shirt. Also, they tend to look good, it might just be the designers, but a hemp all one colour shirt looks better than a non hemp one.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-02-09 08:19am

Hemp has very low THC levels thus a high is hard if possible to achieve. It also has another cannabinoid in it that blocks the usual marijuana high anyway.

You also couldn't grow hemp and marijuana in the same fields as the plants cross-polinate and fuck any point in having the plants grown anyway if a high is all you're after.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-02-09 08:28am

I always heard that hemp was a good renewable source for making paper, which was supposed to be one of the reasons Hearst went after it so strongly. He owned a whole bunch of timber and was killing his competition for the paper industry.

Incidently, there was a whole bunch of wild hemp growing all over the Boy Scout camp I went to as a kid. Every so often some dumb ass would try to smoke some.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2004-02-09 08:59am

Stormbringer wrote:
Chardok wrote:List virtues of Hemp, please? (Or just a link...) I know it makes great rope, but clothes and...replacement for crude? ::
Some of the more overblown claims of the pro-hemp/marijuana crowd.

I suspect it can "replace" crude in the same way corn can--after a long, expernsive, dirty refining process you can turn it into a gasoline substitute. That and hemp can replace certain synthetic fibers produced from petroleum.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-02-09 09:01am

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_131.html

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-02-09 09:03am

Jojoba oil is looking like a better replacement to normal diesel for instance and produces less pollutants as well as being more efficient and with the cosmetics industry behind it already it has a good industry set-up.

Course, searching for other alternatives still goes on.

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