I saw this story and my first thought was, "It's called Hemp, dumb ass"!
And low and behold, that's pretty much what they have, the same thing our Gov planted decades ago all over the Midwest to make rope for the Army.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/scientists-invent-cannabis-without-high-134435371.html

Quote from: Solar on May 31, 2012, 07:36:19 AM
I saw this story and my first thought was, "It's called Hemp, dumb ass"!
And low and behold, that's pretty much what they have, the same thing our Gov planted decades ago all over the Midwest to make rope for the Army.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/scientists-invent-cannabis-without-high-134435371.html

I'm sure there are more than a few people who would be surprised that that stuff is actually used for something else other than getting fried.

Quote from: CubaLibre on May 31, 2012, 08:08:13 AM
I'm sure there are more than a few people who would be surprised that that stuff is actually used for something else other than getting fried.

I had a 50' round of hemp rope that lasted me more than twenty years.
I used it more than all the other ropes, it was simply a better rope than all the synthetics, but you always needed gloves, it was hard on the hands as it ages.

I hand an great uncle that owned a huge ranch in Nebraska, and less than a third was usable for grazing, the rest was covered in hemp 15' high weed.
The Army planted it and never used it, then it took over the ranch, the cattle won't eat it, so he was stuck with it.

So the article says that its for people who smoke marijuana for medicinal purposes. If you smoke it for medicinal purposes it's to get the pain to go away - amirite? You smoke weed medically because the only amount of morphine that will take the cancer pain away would kill you, so you have to get high to escape the hurt.

So why would we develop cannabis without the high for people who need the high to get on?

Just... curious.

It's like sex with your clothes on.
A gun without bullets.
Non alcohol beer.
The new VW Beetle.

Quote from: Door Kicker on June 22, 2012, 06:01:42 AM
It's like sex with your clothes on.
A gun without bullets.
Non alcohol beer.
The new VW Beetle.

As well as gay sex, completely useless.
I thought of fags when I saw VW Beetle. 

How can they claim the invention of something that you can readily buy from China, right now?  I am going to let my crunchy-con show.   I have ordered hundreds of yards of industrial hemp from China (fabric), when I owned my own cloth diaper business.  Best fabric for the job, wish I could have ordered from the US, might have been more cost effective.