Is hemp a viable economic crop for the southeastern U.S.?

[yardwork]

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. This question is relevant to GLBT? n/t

[yardwork]

2. As relevant as numerous other threads.

[mtnester]

6. Log!

And yes, hemp is a viable crop...our family, way way back, had hemp growing permits...we have some copies stashed away (Shenendoah Valley and that area, pre-Ohio as a state times.)

Also had hemp licenses issued to our Ulster Scot/Irish family when they were still in Ulster really long ago. (back in the pay to vote/loyalty oath days)

Hemp was a huge crop back then, and could be again today if everyone in government would get a stick out of their butt about it....it seems most people think that if there are fields of hemp (commercially grown for clothing, rope, other by products of help) that a larg portion of the US would run amock trying to smoke it.

Sigh.

[Yes We Did]

13. Ooh! Ren & Stimpy!

I was wondering what to buy with my amazon gift card! He he!

[Chovexani]

14. It's big, it's heavy, it's wood!

Log, log, it's better than bad, it's good!

[YOY]

3. Only if the farmer is Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or Transgendered.

n.t.

[yardwork]

4. What if they are straight and married? Does that make it relevant?

[YOY]

5. You do realize that this is the GLBT Topic Forum?

n.t.

[yardwork]

8. You do realize that there's already a thread here questioning us about straight marriage?

Written by a poster who just had another thread locked for taunting gay folks?

[YOY]

9. No I didn't. What's that got to do with Hemp?

n/t

[bob4460]

7. it is already

well not hemp but its close cousin who our government says is SO bad

[Zuiderelle]

10. What a silly question.

:D

[yardwork]

18. I know. I was trying to pose an easy question to encourage inclusiveness.

I didn't want anyone to feel like I was being elitist.

[LostinVA]

11. What am I, the Department of Agriculture???

[yardwork]

19. You're not?

[LostinVA]

20. NO -- Secretary of the Interior

I AM a lesbian, you know.

[yardwork]

22. LOL!

You didn't say that!

[LostinVA]

25. My gay friend who uses homophobic slurs and has sex with "straight" men laughed too

[TheWraith]

12. Quite. As I understand, it'll grow in pretty much any kind of soil, and it likes light and heat.

I've never seen a hemp plant in person, but I've seen a testament or two to the tenacity of its psychoactive cousin. My father and I once were out hiking and ran smack into a marijuana plant that had to be 6 feet tall, with a stalk two inches thick, just sitting alone out there with nobody to tend it. Our best guess is that somebody was hiking and smoking a joint, and they tossed away an end containing a seed. It's very tenacious stuff.

The value of hemp rope is overstated relative to synthetics, but it's considered a possible good crop for biofuel because it can be grown in areas where food crops can't. It also produces more pulp for paper-making than the same area of wood, long term.

[yardwork]

23. It grows well in the southeastern U.S. and could be a good replacement for tobacco.

It's too bad that hysteria is keeping it from being legally grown.

[plantwomyn]

15. Hemp still grows wird all over the U.S.

It was planted along RR tracks by the government during WWI and they payed farmers to grow "Hemp for Victory". Even in northern climates it grows well and self-sows. In Indiana there are still patches that are well known and their location passed down every generation. You have to smoke a pound to get high though.

[yardwork]

24. It used to be grown in gardens as an ornamental, too.

I have 100 year old gardening books that recommend planting marijuana as a screen plant that will grow very tall and green in one summer. It was used for backdrop plantings, and the sweet scent was considered another attribute.

It's really a shame that the government is allowed to tell us that we aren't allowed to grow things in our gardens. What would be the harm of growing opium or marijuana for personal use? I can't believe that we allow the government to impose this on us.

[QC]

16. Only if it can be made into fabulous gowns. n/t

[yardwork]

17. I've heard that it works even better than duct tape.

[LostinVA]

21. Exactly, it can be

It makes a great fabric, similar to linen, but WAY more versatile (and not as easily wrinkled) -- seriesly.