I don't remember college being like this...

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... but just because I can't remember, doesn't mean it wasn't.

Drove over to Lawrence (home of University of Kansas) to meet some family for dinner.

We walked around downtown a while afterward and I saw this guy standing on a corner.

One side says "Save Trees - Free Hemp", the other side says "Honk for Hemp".

He had a pretty good gig going, a lot of cute college girls wanted their pictures taken with him.
 

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I don't remember college! :-)

I certainly can't make the connection between "saving trees" and "free hemp".
 
timwinters said:
I certainly can't make the connection between "saving trees" and "free hemp".
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You can make paper from hemp, so that explains the "saving trees".

Rope too, for that matter, but not germane to the saving trees argument.

Maybe the "free" refers to being freed from the bondage of being tied up with hemp rope? :)
 
TMetzinger said:
Can't one get hemp from THC-free plants?
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Yeah, but our govm't is paranoid and all hemp is illegal (IIRC)

Paranoia strikes deep, into your mind it will creep,
it starts when you're always afraid, step out of line, the man come, and take you away.
 
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TMetzinger said:
Can't one get hemp from THC-free plants?
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IIRC hemp comes from Cannabis Americanus (aka "Ditch Weed" as it's still growing in ditches all over the country from WWII when there was a moratorium on the ban because they needed the fiber for the war effort), though I don't know that Cannabis Indicus would be excluded. You can get other natural fibers of very similar qualities and strengths, but I believe that if it's going to be "hemp" it comes from cannabis plants.
 
Henning said:
IIRC hemp comes from Cannabis Americanus (aka "Ditch Weed" as it's still growing in ditches all over the country from WWII when there was a moratorium on the ban because they needed the fiber for the war effort), though I don't know that Cannabis Indicus would be excluded. You can get other natural fibers of very similar qualities and strengths, but I believe that if it's going to be "hemp" it comes from cannabis plants.
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Either you don't "RC" or smoked too much of the stuff. As the plant is indigenous to Asia, there isn't an americanus species or subspecies. The genus is currently classified into three species- sativa, indica, amd ruderalis. The sativa species is generally used for industrial uses but it does have varieties that produce bioactive compounds.

Ditch weed is simply Cannabis that is growing wild - it could be from seeds from plants grown from fiber or those those cultivated for their bioactive compounds.
 
There are more trees today that there were 200 years ago. Its being managed today.
 
I get a kick out of the claim that there are more trees today than when the country was founded... All of the farm fields in the Eastern half of the country were created by cutting the forests...
If you have driven I80 E-W or I75 N-S how much trackless forest have you driven through?
At the time of the Pilgrims the land east of the Mississippi was one vast forest... A Beech-Oak climax forest in the atlantic and middle states mainly, but in the Northern tier states and Southern Canada the Hemlock and Fir were ascendant species, and in the South Long Leaf Pine created a vast curving forest tract from the Carolinas to Texas...

King George originally funded the early colonies to get 130 foot Oak trees for ships masts and the casks of turpentine and pitch from the Long Leaf Pine of the South...

denny-o
 
OtisAir said:
There are more trees today that there were 200 years ago. Its being managed today.
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Where are you getting your numbers? I can promise you that is not true on a global scale. Even in the US where it may be correct, the biomass of those trees is still lower because while managed, the large "Old Growth" is seriously reduced and the trees aren't even 1/4 the size at harvest that the old growth trees they replaced were. In most of the third world where clear cutting followed by poor management still occurs, the numbers and size are dwindling.
 
Henning said:
Where are you getting your numbers? I can promise you that is not true on a global scale. Even in the US where it may be correct, the biomass of those trees is still lower because while managed, the large "Old Growth" is seriously reduced and the trees aren't even 1/4 the size at harvest that the old growth trees they replaced were. In most of the third world where clear cutting followed by poor management still occurs, the numbers and size are dwindling.
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Sounds about right. The old homebuilders know that Spruce has gotten really expensive because all those nice big trees are gone, and the few remaining are protected. I grew up in BC, the land of trees, and those deep dark forests I cruised through while hunting and fishing when young are mostly gone, replaced either by little replants or invasive species like poplar and cottonwood and so on. Junk. My Dad and Granddad and some uncles worked in lumber, and the quality of the wood back then caused the lumber grader to reject cull stuff that's now called #2 or better. Some 2x4s here have bark on all four corners. Tiny trees that were regarded as firewood 40 years ago.

Dan
 
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