[pianotech] "Why not Minot?"

gordon stelter lclgcnp@yahoo.com
Mon, 9 Sep 2002 14:00:59 -0700 (PDT)


My understanding is that William Randolph Hearst drove
the anti-hemp paranoia in his newspapers in the 1930's
because the use of it threatened his forestry holdings
or some such.
     
--- Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> >You can smoke it if you like, but there's not
> enough 'goodies' in it to give
> >you much of any buzz. Not in the type used to grow
> hemp, there isn't.
> 
> Right. An acre of industrial hemp can produce up to
> ten tons of biomass in 
> four months, from which anything from methane,
> alcohol, or a fuel 
> comparable to gasoline can be made. Burns clean - no
> acid rain, no foreign 
> oil. The seeds have the highest fatty acid content
> of any other plant, make 
> an fine quality oil, and are an excellent protein
> source. It's pretty good 
> stuff.
> 
> 
> >We can't grow the stuff because of
> governmental/bureaucratic paranoia.
> >That's all.
> >
> >Del
> 
> Right again, that's "all".
> 
> Ron N
> 
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