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Grex > Agora35 > #139: Election Day! The "I Voted" Item | |
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beeswing
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response 50 of 59:
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Nov 10 05:16 UTC 2000 |
Yet we have hemp clothes? Explain. I am aware the hemp we think of as
weed is not the same thing as industrial...
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goose
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response 51 of 59:
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Nov 10 06:01 UTC 2000 |
Hemp from other countries?
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senna
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response 52 of 59:
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Nov 10 06:22 UTC 2000 |
Differences in distribution and production, I guess.
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mdw
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response 53 of 59:
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Nov 10 06:36 UTC 2000 |
Genetic differences as well. You'd only get sick smoking the industrial
stuff, there's virtually none of the active ingredient.
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bdh3
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response 54 of 59:
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Nov 11 05:23 UTC 2000 |
In various parts of southern michigan there are large stands of hemp
that are the result of the government growing it during WW-II.
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gull
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response 55 of 59:
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Nov 11 18:39 UTC 2000 |
"Ditch weed."
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other
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response 56 of 59:
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Nov 11 21:42 UTC 2000 |
There is no difference, in one sense, between industrial crop-grade hemp and
marijuana. There is a world of difference in another sense. Hence the
confusion, and the inability of the government to make a distinction with
which the politicians who ride the guaranteed vote-grabbing anti-drug
bandwagon can be happy.
One sort is bred to maximise the THC content, and of that sort the female of
the species is prized. The other sort is bred for the strength and quality
of the stem fibers, and in a crop of that sort, the female of the species is
virtually anathema.
Hemp products sold in the US are manufactured from foreign grown (much is
Chinese, I believe) hemp, the fiber and sterile seeds of which are shipped
to the US. There was even a furor a couple of years ago over a truckload of
sterile seeds coming across the Canadian border because of the DEA's
zero-tolerance policy and the fact that a very, very small nonzero percentage
of the seeds are not entirely sterile (50lb bags of the seeds, by the way,
are available at the Dexter Feed Mill and are sold as birdseed -- the birds
love them, and I find them rather tasty myself).
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flem
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response 57 of 59:
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Nov 12 03:00 UTC 2000 |
You guys all know about Jimmy Dopeseed, right? This guy in the 60's used to
go around transplanting marijuana plants in random woods-like areas in the
midwest, mostly Ohio and Michigan. Sides of highways, state parks, obnoxious
people's back yards, etc. Once he even planted one in a flower arrangement
in front of City Hall in Cleveland. The idea, of course, was to see if he
could get pot to grow naturally. I once found, on a Boy Scout campout, a
clearing covered in these really funny looking bushes, which in retrospect
I think were marijuana plants! I wish I'd known that at the time. :)
</total bs mode>
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brighn
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response 58 of 59:
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Nov 12 04:20 UTC 2000 |
Belated post: I voted for Gore and Stabenow, then a mix of Libertarians,
Natural LAw, and Democrats. Refused to vote for any Republicans; first time
I've ever done that.
No on 1, yes on 2, yes on (Oakland County's) A.
I was going to vote yes on 1 as late as last Sunday, then got convinced
because one major thing that I favor in vouchers is allowing student to cross
districts into other public schools, which 1 didn't allow.
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senna
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response 59 of 59:
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Nov 12 04:34 UTC 2000 |
Where was this, Greg?
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