Why hemp kicks cotton's butt (Page 2): Here is another interesting fact about HEMP. You can make high quality paper from hemp! Would you rather cut down 12 acres of trees, that takes...

birdseyeview Loc: Indiana

Here is another interesting fact about HEMP.
You can make high quality paper from hemp!
Would you rather cut down 12 acres of trees,
that takes 12-15 years to harvest,
for x amount of pulp that needs to be bleached
creating Dixon ( a very bad poison for the human race)
or 1 acre of hemp that can be renewed every year
and does not need to be bleached for the same quantity?
I would take a hemp check any day!

TexasNewbie Loc: Far West texas

What will it take to get this plant legal.. The best chance would be to go to China for the development and manufacture of products since we are bogged down by the powers that be. They would be more than willing to take another lead from us.....

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

I totally agree.

Not to dissuade from your hemp post, but I recently discovered Bamboo.
I got a T-shirt for me and a grandson made from it.
It has a strange effect of feeling much cooler than anything I have ever worn before.
I clean 3 pools, mine and two daughters. I like to wear the Bamboo because it feels much cooler out there in the sun working. (Even though it is a forest green color in the Southern California sun.)

Smokey Here

bodacious wrote:

Our son makes tie dyed t-shirts and tries to use hemp whenever possible. My wife has worn a couple for several years and they still work great.

I think you're son might be a hippie smokin the devils weed!

Smokey

CliffB Loc: Bristol UK

Another interesting fact about hemp, it was used to make the rigging and rope work of sailing ships, it's lighter than other materials and floats in the water

Red Bear

During WWII, the US Navy required the growing of hemp. I've never understood the sudden (later) USGov ban on it. Also, I agree with the comment on bamboo.

I had an MD friend (Navy doctor) that suggest to me once, that you would have to "distill" the production of an acre of hemp to be able to get "high" with the stuff.

GARGLEBLASTER Loc: Spain

Red Bear wrote:

During WWII, the US Navy required the growing of hemp. I've never understood the sudden (later) USGov ban on it. Also, I agree with the comment on bamboo.

I had an MD friend (Navy doctor) that suggest to me once, that you would have to "distill" the production of an acre of hemp to be able to get "high" with the stuff.

I have some bamboo sheets that are like silk to sleep in. I didn't buy from this company but I'm just including this link for interestL

http://www.cariloha.com/bed-bath/bedding.html

Bamboo is technically a grass and grows enormously fast. Apart for its posibilty of being woven in to fabric it is also made in to aa very solid, waterproof "wood" that can be made in to furniture and very effective parquet flooring.

http://www.bambooparquet.net/

Hemp could be the saviour of much agricultural land and bamboo could save hundreds of thousands of square miles of rain forest.

Red Bear

GARGLEBLASTER wrote:

I have some bamboo sheets that are like silk to sleep in. I didn't buy from this company but I'm just including this link for interest...Bamboo is technically a grass and grows enormously fast. . .

Hemp could be the saviour of much agricultural land and bamboo could save hundreds of thousands of square miles of rain forest.

Good post! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

GARGLEBLASTER Loc: Spain

Red Bear wrote:

Good post! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Not my intention to hijack the original thread but as we are on things natural, as I have mentioned bamboo parquet, some might be interested in this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwooMpveiFY

Pepper Loc: Planet Earth Country USA

GARGLEBLASTER wrote:

Not my intention to hijack the original thread but as we are on things natural, as I have mentioned bamboo parquet, some might be interested in this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwooMpveiFY

Remove the "s" and your link is clickable

GARGLEBLASTER Loc: Spain

Pepper wrote:

Remove the "s" and your link is clickable

Sorry

Los-Angeles-Shooter Loc: Los Angeles

Red Bear wrote:

During WWII, the US Navy required the growing of hemp. I've never understood the sudden (later) USGov ban on it. Also, I agree with the comment on bamboo.

I had an MD friend (Navy doctor) that suggest to me once, that you would have to "distill" the production of an acre of hemp to be able to get "high" with the stuff.

I think that hemp was still widely used for rope and twine during WWII and possibly for some fabrics. Hemp rope later got replaced with synthetics for all but decorative or specialty uses. Sailboat rigging, climbing ropes ... pretty much all uses where strength is essential are synthetics now.

Michael Hartley Loc: Deer Capital of Georgia

If it wasn't for hemp, our soilders in WWI, and II, would have been fighting naked.

I had bamboo flooring (like Pergo), in the front entrance of our other house, it was really nice. When I do the hallway in this house, it'll be bamboo.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Pepper wrote:

Remove the "s" and your link is clickable

That's good to know, Pepper. Thank You for pointing that out.

I always worry that a secure link might not work (https:), seems it is a crap shoot sometimes.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

GARGLEBLASTER wrote:

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http://www.cariloha.com/bed-bath/bedding.html

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Yep. yep,yep,yep.
Cara LOW HA! We called it out at the store in Alaska and got free beaded necklaces. (yeah, sometimes I'm easily entertained) :lol:

If the bamboo grows so fast and free, why is the product so expensive? Does it take that much to produce the fabric from it?

And is hemp nearly/comparatively as soft?