Good thing these weren't around when I was in college..

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Marbles

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ABEX

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Good thing these weren't around when I was in college..
« Reply #1 on: 15 Jul 2004, 09:37 pm »
Can you roll them up in Zig-Zags? They must be a bitch to break up!

rosconey

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« Reply #2 on: 15 Jul 2004, 10:09 pm »
i hope you guys dont think hemp gets you high :nono:  its totaly worthless for that-thc is under.05%. but it is the longest cultivated plant on the planet, man has been growing it since cave man days  :P it gives more btu per pound than anything else when used for heat,makes a strong fabric and also a great oil, but our ignorant goverment has had the idea its a drug for the last 60 years or so.
one of my old teachers owned a civil war era hemp farm, and the feds wasted time effort and money every year trying to stop it from growing wild on his land-they never did  :lol:

byteme

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« Reply #3 on: 15 Jul 2004, 10:12 pm »
Roscony,

Chalk one up for the power of lobbies.  Wealthy cotton farmers positioned hemp as dangerous based on getting high from it when the real "danger" was to their money factory that is cotton.

rosconey

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« Reply #4 on: 15 Jul 2004, 10:16 pm »
yup-but when ww2 started the gov alowed it again for oil , canvas and rope production.

read in a local paper a guy tried selling shoes and shirts in his store made from it and the goverment threatend to shut him down.

nathanm

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« Reply #5 on: 15 Jul 2004, 10:37 pm »
Don't despair folks, luckily the most useful, life-affirming substances like alcohol and tobacco are still legal in America. :roll:

I can understand the cotton guys wanting to crush their competition, but why the hell don't THEY grow hemp then?  If there is so much money to be made off it why don't they switch?

byteme

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« Reply #6 on: 16 Jul 2004, 01:20 pm »
Quote from: nathanm
Don't despair folks, luckily the most useful, life-affirming substances like alcohol and tobacco are still legal in America. :roll:

I can understand the cotton guys wanting to crush their competition, but why the hell don't THEY grow hemp then?  If there is so much money to be made off it why don't they switch?
 What would they have done with all those "employees" they invested in??

JohnR

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« Reply #7 on: 16 Jul 2004, 01:45 pm »
Quote from: rosconey
read in a local paper a guy tried selling shoes and shirts in his store made from it and the goverment threatend to shut him down.


I bought a pair of pants made from hemp in LA. My mattress has a hemp cover. Haven't noticed being high in the morning :roll: well not until after the 4th espresso anyway :lol: It's still kinda a "fringe" material, which you find here and there. I like it.