The Hemp Revolution [Youtube]

I'm probably breaking some kind of rule by posting something this intelligent and lengthy in this section (not sure if Youtube threads can be created in Random or SD), but oh well. Worth a watch if you have the time and don't know much about the practical uses for hemp and what it can do for humanity.

Drugs are bad mkay.

tl;ngtw

No, fuck off hippie.

Over one hour jewtube thread.
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Gets me every time.

Inb4 lock of thread.


Oh and Say what!:

That killed me.

You really think I am going to watch a hour long youtube video? Really? Then maybe you should listen to say what and lay off those drugs

>Drugs

Actually it talks about hemp being used for practical purposes like building houses, making cars, replacing carbon fiber as a whole with a cheaper resource, making fiber glass, making oil, producing clothes, making edible products (butter, seeds etc.) and how the cotton farmers lobbied against hemp to make it an illegal resource. It then goes on to explain what hemp is going to do for us in the near future. Did you know at one point in the United States every farmer was required to dedicate a sector of his land to the growth of hemp? [sarcasm]I wonder why?[/sarcasm]

Oh well, I guess no one is into documentaries anymore. Sucks to be you.

If you want to debate about hemp then make a thread in SD, but do not add the video.

Explain to me how hemp would be stronger than carbon fibre/ more practical for making cars out of.

Not this Marijuana shit again.

I don't want to debate it, because there is no debate, it's a documentary portraying yes, some biased views, but most of it just puts scientific evidence right in your face.





About 25 seconds in and you'll see what I mean, Henry Ford wanted to fucking use it, but again, like using alcohol instead of petrol for gas, was told no. That was in 1941, imagine how strong we could make that car today with the technology we have. Not to mention it'd be at least three or four times cheaper and way lighter, meaning you could easily put a smaller and more efficient engine into a car built with hemp fiber and get the same speeds.

Edit: As for the carbon fiber replacement, it's simple: hemp fiber compositions used for the same applications as carbon fiber compositions are stronger and more malleable. Don't believe me? Google or Youtube it.

Hemp's great and all, but look to Canada: they have plenty and it's not revolutionizing anything.

There are several reasons for this:

Most countries won't import the resource due to harsh drug laws, even if the fiber being exported comes from male sativa that have been chemically modified to yield extremely small amounts of THC (You'd have to smoke an entire bail to get high). It's only legal to widely grow in Saskatchewan, and only now because the farmers basically told Harper to go **** himself. Even so, the amount grown is actually fairly small when you compare how many hectares of land are used for the production of hemp versus other resources like corn and wheat.

The poor reputation of hemp and what people relate it to are an instant turn-off for almost any wealthy investor, the initial responses to this thread are a good example of why this is; so, as I'm sure you could guess (with everything in the former paragraph taken into account), it's almost impossible to get any initial start-up funding for a business that wants to make hemp products, save for a few things like clothes and rope.

Marijuana may be British Columbia's second largest export, but that export mainly deals with criminal organizations that are working towards getting people high rather than working towards producing textiles, oil and food. These organizations focus on growing female indica plants which are often crossed with a weak strain of sativa to increase the size of their harvests, these plants almost always yield a high amount of THC.

The real problem however; is the oil and mining companies who continuously work against the production of hemp because it will decrease their control over the energy and mineral resource sectors of any given nation.

Hemp can be used to produce and improve so many things, from steel and concrete to oil and butter, it would be folly of the human race not to take advantage of it's obvious benefits; yet we still are not doing so. One day however; one day I deduce will be soon given the current state of the world, hemp will see the global market, and that's when it's revolution will be realized.

I understand this. However, keep in mind, within their own country even, use of it is still mostly a novelty: it's not revolutionizing their fiber or medical industries.