What would you do if the solution to global warming was illegal?

Question

For whatever reason, global warming is caused by an excess of CO2 gas. Hemp is a biomass champion for scrubbing the air of excess CO2 gas and, when used as a biofuel, can replace any toxic energy we are using with clean, safe energy.

Massive hemp growing on unused federal land could help reduce the effects of global warming by dealing with the cause. Hemp can replace many polluting activities with biofriendly alternatives like fuel, paper and food. Hemp is wind pollinated, not bee pollinated, so could serve as a back-up food source.

But it's illegal.

The USA Hemp Museum www.hempmuseum.org has more on hemp and global warming.

So, after you've done your own research on the subject, please post your ideas on: What would you do if the solution to global warming was illegal?

Answer 1

canabis is illegal Hemp fibre is not

the plants that grow hemp fibre do not contain enough canabis to interest anybody that smokes marijuanna.
it is a plant that consists mostly of a stem with a little seed pod on the top with canabis of a very inferior quality

the plants grown for the canabis have many branches and consist entirely out of seed pods
another type of marijuana plant alltogether

in most countries today and in the Netherlands and Africa .hemp is again grown for the fibre to make quality clothing .

the USA happens to be very primative about this because their owners own petroleum ,which makes synthetic fibres and they do not want competition to their material ,it has nothing to do with drugs ,that is a political lie .But it is why hemp will not become Legal in the USA.

Answer 2

Since this is the Science section, not the hippie from the 60's section..., I must first say your first statement is not exactly correct. CO2 is not the main cause of global warming according to the UN study. The main cause is actually water vapor. Check the much touted IPCC report. It even says that 80% to 95% of the "green house" effect is cased by water vapor which "we can't control". (What they mean is they can't use the water vapor effect to control you, like they can the CO2!)

Second point is, I am a controls consultant who does projects for many bio-fuels and trash-to-cash companies. A BIG problem is the amount of toxic chemicals required to prevent ash, NOx, and much more toxic gases from being released into the atmosphere. (You think second-hand cigarette smoke is bad!) Once those chemicals are spent they have to be disposed of, mostly in landfills that leach into the rivers and oceans.

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Answer 3

There are SOOOOO many legal ways to reduce greenhouse emmisions that I find it comic to resort to hemp cultivation to mitigate it.
It would be like arguing that if we kill the students with low grades in each classroom we can raise the collective GPA and grades would improve. Well, that's true that the grades will improve, but why do we have to do something illegal and wrong when there are so many other solutions!!! ???

Answer 4

We could reduce Global warming by using nukelear energy too. but it's illegal, and hemp has been around for a long time so go smoke some....

Answer 5

Hemp is not marijuana. Hemp does not contain enough THC to have any effect.

So why not just legalize hemp and then grow them?

Answer 6

I bet you can use that argument to help in your efforts to get it legalized. I bet that is the main reason you are trying to legalize it too. Wink. Wink.

Answer 7

What would I do? I would pray for god's help. For he is the one that created this place, he should have a good reason for that.