Isn't this a great idea?

[wildbilln864]

http://www.findaproperty.com/story.aspx?storyid=0450

[AndyTiedye]

1. kick

:kick:

[wildbilln864]

9. bump

:)

[Fridays Child]

2. Gives a whole new meaning to a "brick" of pot.

:P

[Dr.Phool]

3. Damn! And the story is 5 years old to boot.

I wonder how it's coming along now?

And welcome to DU.

[skids]

10. Study results:

He cites a social housing project in Suffolk, England as providing a good example of the superiority of hemp as a building material. Suffolk Housing Society built the first two hemp houses in England, as part of an 18-unit social housing development, then studied their performance compared to the regularly constructed buildings. A report was issued in 2002 by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) in regards to the sustainability, economic and environmental differences between the two construction methods. The report’s principal conclusions are that while the hemp homes have far less impact on the environment – they use less energy to build, create less waste and take less fuel to heat – they cost about 10 percent more to build than brick and block houses.

http://www.life.ca/nl/108/hemphouse.html

Lots of other interesting stuff about isochanvre/cannabiote and other hemp-based building materials there as well.

[wildbilln864]

4. Relative Safety of Medical Marijuana

"Marijuana is the safest therapeutically active substance known to man... safer than many foods we commonly consume." DEA Judge Francis L. Young, Sept. 6, 1988
"After carefully monitoring the literature for more than two decades, we have concluded that the only well-confirmed deleterious physical effect of marihuana is harm to the pulmonary system." Grinspoon M.D., James B. Bakalar,
Medical Marijuana has been in use for thousands of years, and in spite of substantial efforts to find adverse effects, it remains the safest medication available for RBS. There has never been a single known case of lethal overdose. The ratio of lethal to effective dose for medical marijuana is estimated to be as 40,000 to 1. By comparison, the ratio is 3-50 to 1 for secobarbital and 4-10 to 1 for alcohol.(11)
During the 1890s the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission interviewed some eight hundred people and produced a report of more than 3000 pages. The report concluded that "there was no evidence that moderate use of cannabis drugs produced any disease or mental or moral damage, or that it tended to lead to excess any more than the moderate use of whiskey."(12)

[riderinthestorm]

5. Have you seen any information on straw bale houses?

There's a movement here in the US to build houses with straw bales. The straw acts in a similar manner to the hemp you are describing although the bales need to be braced with re-bar and are typically finished with a spray on concrete. I saw some buildings on in Arizona made of straw bales and they were gorgeous! Soundproof, excellent insulatulatory properties so they were cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. And very, very cheap, easy to build, and energy efficient.

[FatDave]

11. I have seen those and they do look cool

But I just can't imagine they're safe. Maybe I just have an irrational fear of the Big Bad Wolf.

[wildbilln864]

6. snip/

Marijuana was listed in the United States Pharmacopeia from 1850 until 1942 and was prescribed for various conditions including labor pains, nausea, and rheumatism. Its use as an intoxicant was also commonplace from the 1850s to the 1930s. A campaign conducted in the 1930s by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics (now the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs) sought to portray marijuana as a powerful, addicting substance that would lead users into narcotics addiction. It is still considered a “gateway” drug by some authorities. In the 1950s it was an accessory of the beat generation </html/b1/beatgene.asp> ; in the 1960s it was used by college students and “hippies” and became a symbol of rebellion against authority. http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/marijuan_HistoryofMarijuanaUse.asp

[wildbilln864]

7. And most important to our future security...

IMHO!

http://www.hemp4fuel.com/nontesters/hemp4fuel/

[Fridays Child]

8. Hemp threatened multiple industries...

...with enough influence in Washington to get production stopped via criminalization and outright scare tactics.

[OneBlueSky]

12. hemp is a real miracle plant with a myriad of legitimate uses . . .

everything from building materials to clothing to energy . . . could be a way to save the American family farm -- what's left of it . . .

[wildbilln864]

13. Imagine...

if hemp had never been made illegal. There'd be hemp fields across the country! Tractor-trailors across the country would be using the oil from the seeds as fuel instead of diesel. So could electric powerplants. Just like Mr. diesel intended! The air would be clean. We'd use it for paper and textiles. The first pair of Levis was made of hemp! I don't think we'd be in a war for oil today if we hadn't been decieved and screwed back in 1937!



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Henry Ford recognized the utility of the hemp plant. He constructed a car of resin stiffened hemp fiber, and even ran the car on ethanol made from hemp. Ford knew that hemp could produce vast economic resources if widely cultivated.
"There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years." Henry Ford

[Higans]

17. Imagine all the people living life in peace!

Yaho!!!

[mdmc]

14. k/r for the herb

:kick:

[wildbilln864]

15. I think this is terribly important....

People don't know the history of canabis in our country. America may not have survived without it's help.
Please learn more. Make it legal!

www.jackherer.com

[wildbilln864]

16. some snips/

Composites, which include paneling, medium-density fiberboard, trusses, and support beams, comprise the fastest-growing segment of the wood-products industry. In 1994, building materials accounted for 20 000 tons of assorted crops, in 1996, it is expected to account for 500 000 tons.<24> Washington State Univ.'s preeminent Wood Composite Laboratory has tested hemp for use in medium-density fiberboard, and lab results show that hemp is up to twice as strong as wood.
Hemp hurds, traditionally considered a waste product are now being used fairly extensively in France for insulation materials and when combined with lime naturally petrify to create a pourable building material. This material is five times lighter, yet stronger than concrete, and has superior insulation and fire retardant properties. The most renown of these processes has been patented by a French company Isochanvre.
Hemp is among the oldest industries on the planet, going back more than 10,000 years to the beginnings of pottery. The Columbia History of the World states that the oldest relic of human industry is a bit of hemp fabric dating back to approximately 8,000 BC.
Presidents Washington and Jefferson both grew hemp. Americans were legally bound to grow hemp during the Colonial Era and Early Republic. In 1937 Congress passed the Marihuana Tax Act which effectively began the era of hemp prohibition. The tax and licensing regulations of the act made hemp cultivation unfeasable for American farmers. The chief promoter of the Tax Act, Harry Anslinger, began promoting anti-marijuana legislation around the world.

[mdmc]

18. it is a mad pleasure to have you here at DU, wildbilln864

peace and low stress,
mdmc
:kick:

[mdmc]

19. thanks for this link

peace and low stress!