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Cannabis plants could help fight climate change because they absorb carbon dioxide more than TWICE as effectively as trees
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Posted on 11/24/2022 5:45:52 PM PST by algore

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To: algore
Hemp, or industrial hemp, is a variety of the Cannabis sativa plant but contains deficient levels of the psychoactive compound tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) compared to marijuana, which is another variety.

The plant being discussed is not the marijuana that gets people high. And there have been groups advocating the use of hemp for many things long before the issue of excess carbon came along. Is probably worth considering.

I've been using hemp protein in a protein shake for years

21 posted on 11/24/2022 6:18:00 PM PST by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: airborne

It was used for rope.


22 posted on 11/24/2022 6:22:08 PM PST by GingisK
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To: airborne

You’ve never seen kudzu, have you?


23 posted on 11/24/2022 6:23:04 PM PST by GingisK
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To: algore

Allah


24 posted on 11/24/2022 6:24:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Will88

In America we used to grow a lot of hemp but Hearst who owned newspapers and timber to make the paper wanted it banned. The cotton farmers also lobbied against hemp.

Hemp is strong and fast growing and can be used for rope and all kinds of products.


25 posted on 11/24/2022 6:25:48 PM PST by angry elephant (Been with Trump since huge 2016 Washington state rally in May.)
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To: algore

Attach this to the “The Hidden Costs of Living Alone” article - https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4111689/posts

TPTB want 20 stoners living in every house. 1 or 2 will work and the rest can stay home and collect UBI


26 posted on 11/24/2022 6:27:57 PM PST by Pollard ( )
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Bahahahahaha….is there anything pot cannot do???


27 posted on 11/24/2022 6:39:42 PM PST by TnTnTn
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To: algore

You sure cotton needs 1500 gallons of water for every pound produced? Seems it is grown in semi-arid places without irrigation such as West Texas.


28 posted on 11/24/2022 6:50:27 PM PST by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: angry elephant

As I recall it was not just the Hearst news organization but DuPont came up with nylon 6,6 about the time hemp because illegal. It competed with hemp.

What seems to be missing in this story is what happens to hemp when it decomposes. Methane is released.

So just growing hemp and composting it doesn’t help. It would have to be made into food and durable goods to reduce “greenhouse gases”.


29 posted on 11/24/2022 7:01:05 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: Beowulf9

What about that guy who said he ‘never inhaled?’


30 posted on 11/24/2022 7:14:15 PM PST by bobcat62
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To: algore

They’re obsessed and possessed by their weed. That’s why we call it dope.


31 posted on 11/24/2022 7:16:55 PM PST by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: algore

Hmmm, can we cut down all the forests then, and replace them with weed?


32 posted on 11/24/2022 7:20:30 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Baruch Ha Ba Ba Shem Adonai!)
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To: algore

There is no “climate change”.


33 posted on 11/24/2022 7:29:55 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: algore

Now that’s funny right there. I wonder if Hemp has the same effect. A lot of useful things are made from Hemp.


34 posted on 11/24/2022 7:31:11 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

And I see the article talks about hemp, interesting. A lot nicer stuff to deal with than old poisonous solar panels.


35 posted on 11/24/2022 7:32:59 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: airborne

Ya..I could picture that.

Satisfying to think about really.


36 posted on 11/24/2022 7:46:15 PM PST by crz
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To: algore

Were the researchers drug free when they came to their conlusions?


37 posted on 11/24/2022 8:01:04 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Anything pot can't fix? /s

Fine, let client hysteria idiots get high on pot, maybe locked up on pot farms. Problems solved: No more pot idiots, no more client hysteria.

38 posted on 11/24/2022 8:01:43 PM PST by Reno89519 (Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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Newsflash: Trees thrive on carbon dioxide.

And Windmills chop up birds and bats 24 x 7


39 posted on 11/24/2022 8:11:11 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: KarlInOhio

“The general balanced reaction for Photo’synthesis Formula according to Kamen and Ruban (1941) is
6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2 + 6H2O
(Carbon dioxide) (Water) (Glucose) (Oxygen) (Water)
Photosynthesis is the process of converting the energy in which solar energy is converted into the form of light which is used in the production of carbohydrate molecules.”

I imagine that 7 tons of co2 is used 3 tons of carbon is retained and 4 tons of o2 is released into the air.


40 posted on 11/24/2022 8:17:30 PM PST by the_daug ( )
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