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Industrial hemp is grown in Canada, China, and European countries, among other places. But the DEA has barred its production in the US, leading to a bizarre situation in which American farmers have to sit idly by while industrial hemp products are imported from other countries. A number of states have passed legislation authorizing hemp research or production, but they are blocked by the DEA, which refuses to recognize any difference between high-fiber, low-THC hemp and low-fiber, high-THC marijuana.

This is just plain economically retarded.

We hate this plant SO MUCH that we refuse to let anyone make money from it.

And if that weren't enough economic damage to ourselves: we'll spend 17 BILLION Dollars a YEAR Arresting/Persecuting/Jailing any poor taxpayer that dares to touch it (The Rich ALWAYS just get off with a warning: too bad if you are poor or a minority).

The "War on Drugs" is a War of the Federal Government on the American People: a Dictatorship enforcing it's will with propaganda and terror tactics. It's Wrong: because WE SAY SO! It has no value: again, just because we say so. And we refuse to let any scientific studies be conducted that MIGHT disprove our attitude. Prohibition ALWAYS Works! (We NEVER Learn from our Mistakes).

How is this "We Say So" attitude essentially any different from the clergy hunting and burning witches in Salem? It is just as enlightened, too.

We have no Money to feed our poor or even fix the damage hurricane Katrina did: but we have PLENTY of Money to Jail people over a harmless, medicinal plant or make weapons of mass destruction ....  Our government has lost touch with the will of the people and has become a self-serving and self-perpetuating collection of power hungry rich people.

Their "Golden Rule" Literally IS "Those who have the Gold Make the Rules.". "Treat Others as you want to be treated yourself" - Why Should We? We've got OURS ... We don't have to retire on Social Security!

[elyusium]

Home » Drug War Chronicle » Issue #653
Hemp "Attractive" for Biodiesel, Researchers Say

by Phillip Smith, October 13, 2010, 05:11pm, (Issue #653)
Posted in:

    * Hemp
    * News Brief

Researchers at the University of Connecticut reported last week that the fiber crop cannabis sativa, also known as industrial hemp, has several qualities that make it an attractive feedstock for producing biodiesel, a sustainable diesel fuel made from renewable plant resources.

car powered by hemp-based biodiesel fuel (hempcar.org)
Industrial hemp can grow in infertile soils and does not require lots of water, fertilizer, or high-grade inputs to flourish, said researchers led by Dr. Richard Parnas, a professor of chemical, materials, and biomolecular engineering. It produces strong fibers that, until the advent of synthetic fibers in the 1950s, made it the premier product used in making rope and clothing around the world.

Currently, much biodiesel feedstock comes from crops that could otherwise be used for human food consumption, such as soybeans, peanuts, olives, and rapeseed. Similar problems face the production of ethanol, which diverts corn that could have been used for cattle feed (and ultimately consumed as meat by humans) into the fuel production market.

"For sustainable fuels, often it comes down to a question of food versus fuel," said Parnas. "It's equally important to make fuel from plants that are not food, but also won't need the high-quality land."

Parnas pointed out that much of the world still relies on hemp as a primary fiber, mainly because of its ability to "grow like a weed." But in fiber production, hemp seeds are often discarded, and, the researcher said, this waste product could be put to good use by using it as a fuel.

"If someone is already growing hemp," he said, "they might be able to produce enough fuel to power their whole farm with the oil from the seeds they produce."

Parnas and his team used virgin hemp seed oil to create biodiesel using a process called transesterification and achieved a high conversion efficiency with 97% of the hemp oil being converted to biodiesel. The university holds a patent on a biodiesel reactor system that could be customized to make biodiesel from a range of feedstocks, including hemp.

"Our research data could make buying a reactor system with our technology more attractive," says Parnas. "If we have data for the production of many different feedstocks, we can tailor the system to meet the company's needs."

Industrial hemp is grown in Canada, China, and European countries, among other places. But the DEA has barred its production in the US, leading to a bizarre situation in which American farmers have to sit idly by while industrial hemp products are imported from other countries. A number of states have passed legislation authorizing hemp research or production, but they are blocked by the DEA, which refuses to recognize any difference between high-fiber, low-THC hemp and low-fiber, high-THC marijuana.
Storrs, CT
United States

[illcommandante]

I have a scar where The VA took out my pacemaker seven years ago. Only because I was in a four bed ward at La Jolla, do I even know why I woke up with the whole staff standing around me, asking stupid questions. My room mates filled me in. I had lain there without a heartbeat for two minutes when the cardiologist told the nurse to roll the head of my bed down. They didn't want to send me to the morgue bent. But, rolling down my head, started my heart. They returned with a "Do Not Resucitate" form, but why? When they didn't bother to try before. The pacemake they removed, according to Dr. Moran, the cardiologist who had shut it off years before "Is the wrong model, and the lead is in the wrong chamber". They had let that thing beat my heart apart for six months while I complained. But, the point of Dr. Deatherage's pacemaker was to kill me before I sued him for the last surgery he had botched on me. The pacemaker was a botched job only because I lived to call a murderer a murderer. I have arrested six times now and come back on my own five times. The slow heart was the result of untreated hypothyroidism. The reason I lived is because marijuana is such a good lubricant. In cardiology it's use appears to be simply mechanical. Like WD-40. And, it appears to work well.

[jbmac]

hemp biodiesel and Cannabis Prohibition

Post by hempity on Tue May 27, 2008 5:11 am
Howdy Folks nice to be here, jbmac asked me to post this, so please blame him.

The main reason hemp is illegal today is because of biodiesel's potential. The first diesel engines (by Rudolph Diesel in 1894) were invented to run on hempseed oil; petroleum wasn't synthesized to mimic hempseed oil for over a decade. Therefore hempseed oil was the primary fuel for automobiles for over 30 years after the invention of the first internal combustion engine.

Cannabis Prohibition is really about money and the continued centralization of economic and political control. Hemp seed oil is biodiesel and is three times more productive than any other seed oil crop, and hemp seed oil will run any diesel engine today with no modification. Hemp oil is the reason the petrochemical industry made up the "reefer madness" myth. They renamed hemp, using racist propaganda, calling it marijuana, and lied to make it illegal. There is a truth that must be heard!
Though tobacco and alcohol cause hundreds of thousands of deaths every year, cannabis is completely nontoxic and has never caused a single death in thousands of years. Yet tobacco and alcohol users can avail themselves of a regulated market, while cannabis users are subjected to arbitrary prosecution and punishment by enforcers of this unjust law.

In 1893, German inventor Rudolph Diesel published a paper entitled "The Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Engine," which described an engine in which air is compressed by a piston to a very high pressure, causing a high temperature. Fuel is then injected and ignited by the compression temperature.

Diesel built his first engine based on that theory the same year and, though it worked only sporadically, he patented it. Within a few years, Diesel's design became the standard of the world for that type of engine and his name was attached to it.

Diesel thought that the United States was the greatest potential market for his engine. The first diesel built in the United States was made in 1898 by Busch-Zulzer Brothers Diesel Engine Co. The president of that company was Adolphus Busch, of Budweiser brewing fame, who had purchased North American manufacturing rights.

Diesel's Humanitarian Vision:

Diesel originally thought that the diesel engine, (readily adaptable in size and utilizing locally available fuels) would enable independent craftsmen and artisans to endure the powered competition of large industries that then virtually monopolized the predominant power source-the oversized, expensive, fuel-wasting steam engine. During 1885 Diesel set up his first shop-laboratory in Paris and began his 13-year ordeal of creating his distinctive engine.. At Augsburg, on August 10, 1893, Diesel's prime model, a single 10-foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time. Diesel spent two more years at improvements and on the last day of 1896 demonstrated another model with the spectacular, if theoretical, mechanical efficiency of 75.6 percent, in contrast to the then-prevailing efficiency of the steam engine of 10 percent or less. Although commercial manufacture was delayed another year and even then begun at a snail's pace, by 1898 Diesel was a millionaire from franchise fees in great part international. His engines were used to power pipelines, electric and water plants, automobiles and trucks, and marine craft, and soon after were used in applications including mines, oil fields, factories, and transoceanic shipping.

DuPont, Mellon, and Hearst:

Diesel expected that his engine would be powered by vegetable oils (including hemp) and seed oils. At the 1900 World's Fair, Diesel ran his engines on peanut oil. Later, George Schlichten invented a hemp 'decorticating' machine that stood poised to revolutionize paper making. Henry Ford demonstrated that cars can be made of, and run on, hemp. Evidence suggests a special-interest group that included the DuPont petrochemical company, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon (Dupont's major financial backer), and the newspaper man William Randolph Hearst mounted a yellow journalism campaign against hemp. Hearst deliberately confused psychoactive marijuana with industrial hemp, one of humankind's oldest and most useful resources. DuPont and Hearst were heavily invested in timber and petroleum resources, and saw hemp as a threat to their empires. Petroleum companies also knew that petroleum emits noxious, toxic byproducts when incompletely burned, as in an auto engine. Pollution was important to Diesel and he saw his engine as a solution to the inefficient, highly polluting engines of his time. In 1937 DuPont, Mellen and Hearst were able to push a "marijuana" prohibition bill through Congress in less than three months, which destroyed the domestic hemp industry.

A Mystery:

Diesel died under mysterious circumstances in 1913, vanishing during an overnight crossing of the English Channel on the mail steamer Dresden from Antwerp to Harwich. Diesel's death might have been suicide, accidental or an assassination. Proponents of the assassination theory point out that shortly after Diesel's death, a diesel-powered German submarine fleet became the scourge of the seas. Diesel had been friendly to France, Britain and the United States

WE HAVE BEEN DUPED BY THE CORPORATE PINHEADS!
How long do we let it continue?

Re: hemp biodiesel and Cannabis Prohibition

Post by jbmac on Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:27 am
Let's see, today The stock market crashed again, oil is at an all-time record, the stuffed suits on TV don't even mention how hemp could help, the drug war is a failure, we are fighting wars that we are funding the enemy as drugs are illegal, this is insane. When will we wake up?