Over 5000???

[bwalker42]

From what I have learned through my research, prior to the prohibition that prohibited the Hemp herb from it's use, it was used world wide in over 5000 different marketable retail products. I'm not sure, but I don't think all of them were drug related.

For example, here's one besides rope, sails, sailors shoes, sailors uniforms, or parachutes, but, what else could there be that's not drug related???

(BTW, Please do not try this at home)

Hemp Oil Fuels & How to Make Them
By: A. Das

Introduction of Hemp Bio Diesel maybe the liquid fuel of the future. Hemp is a high yield C-4 photosynthesis plant. Hemp can boast a higher oilseed yield than any of today's oilseed crops (soy, canola or safflower).
Thirty years ago soy beans were a joke to American farmers. Who would have guessed that in thirty years soy beans would become the largest oil and protein crop in American farming. Right now Hemp farming is a joke to American farmers. Who knows what the next thirty years will do to American Hemp farming. Hemp fuels are yet another benefit of Domestic Industrial Hemp Farming. As we enter 1997 more than ten states will be considering Industrial Hemp Farm Bills. In the meantime, Hempseed must be grown out side the country. The major part of the cost of the inexpensive Hempseed is transportation from across the globe. The seed to produce a gallon of Hemp-seed oil can cost up to $100. All foreign production and shipping plans are doomed to high costs. I look forward to the days when a farmer can produce his own hempseed oil fuel as low as a dollar a gallon.
A 4 kilowatt diesel generator uses around one liter an hour .
Bio Diesel is not a new fuel. The DOE and USDA have provided funding for research for years. The Biomass Conference of The Americas in Burlington Vermont had over a dozen papers presented on all aspects of Hemp as an oilseed cultivars. Lets get on with it!
How to Make Bio Diesel Titration of Free Fatty Acids. Measure Free Fatty Acid content of your oil: Mix 1 ml oil with 10 ml Isopropyl alcohol = 2 drops phenolthalian solution (available in a hobby shop chemistry set suppliers). Drop-wise add 0.1% lye solution ( 1 gm lye in one liter water ) until the solution stays pink for 10 seconds. (20 drops = 1 ml) Record the milliliters of 0.1% lye solution used.
Methanol You will need 200 ml of methanol per liter of Hemp Seed oil. Methanol may be purchased as Drigas available at most automotive stores, read the label for methanol. Also Methanol is available from racing stores. Avoid hardware store methanol (wood alcohol) as it mat contain excessive water content.
Sodium Methoxide For each liter of hemp seed oil you need one gram of granular solid lye for each ml of 0.1% lye solution used in titration of free fatty acids plus 3.5 grams. Completely dissolve the proper amount of Lye in the methanol (Red Devil Lye can be purchased from the Grocery Store). This combined mixture makes sodium methoxide.
Mixer The type of mixer depends on the size of the batch. A blender works fine for a small batch. An electric drill and paint mixer on an extended shaft works well in a 5 gallon bucket. An electric light dimmer switch provides a good speed control.
Transesterfication Once the lye catalyst is dissolved completely so that there is no sediment, then the oil may be added to the methanol lye mixture while mixing continuously. At first the mixture becomes thicker, then thinner as the reaction proceeds. Collect samples every 5 minutes with an eye dropper into a test tube or clear container. The Mixture will separate into a light top layer of bio diesel and a darker bottom layer of glycerin, soap and catalyst. Continued mixing 30 - 60 minutes until the yield remains constant. Then stop mixing. Go have lunch. When you come back it will have settled into two distinct layers. You have just made what could be the fuel of the future for a self reliant society. Let the mixture settle for at least 8 hours. Pour off and save the bio diesel top layer into another container. A clear funnel bottomed container is helpful.
Rinsing The raw Bio Diesel that you have just produced may have some catalyst, alcohol, and glycerin remaining which could cause engine problems, so for long term engine reliability this raw fuel should be rinsed with water. Gently at first then more vigorously rinse with water until the rinse water is clear and the pH of the rinse water is the same pH as the supply water. Settle, Decant.
Drying Water in the bio Diesel makes cloudy so it must be carefully heated. At 100 C most of the water coalesces and falls to the bottom. This water must be completely removed from the bottom of the container before heating to higher temperature.
CAUTION! Wear protective clothing and eyewear. FAILURE TO REMOVE THIS WATER BEFORE FURTHER HEATING CAN CAUSE VIOLENT ERUPTION OF HOT LIQUID!
Once all water has been removed then heat the bio diesel to 300 f (150 c) to complete dryness. Cool, filter, and store bio diesel in a well marked dry closed container. 100% HEMP DIESEL FUEL (HEMP OIL METHYL ESTER - HOME FUEL)
This fuel may be mixed in any ratio with petroleum diesel. Dynamometer tests indicate full power output with up to 75% reduction in soot and particles. No engine modification is needed to burn bio diesel fuel.
Other Oil Feedstocks Hemp Seed Oil at present is too expensive to drive across the country. That is not the object of this article. Our purpose is to demonstrate proof of feasibility of this fuel concept. The time is now to give hemp a chance. The small quantities of Hemp Diesel Fuel can play a powerful role in educating ourselves and the policy makers about the hope in hemp.
For other readers the question will be raised. What else can I use as a feedstock that is cheaper between now and domestic hemp seed crops? Soy, Sunflower, Canola, and Safflower oils are being used in field testing programs right now.

[Valiente]

Like Cuba or abortion, advocating hemp cultivation (which is better as a fuel source than ethanol from grains and which can be growth on utterly lousy land) is not going to fly in the United States because people simply can't think clearly enough on the issues to realize where their own interests lie.

Must be on drugs, I guess.

[bwalker42]

Wow!!
Somebody could get wind of this and get Xtremely wealthy,
Underground, fuel! hahahaha



I paid $3.21 per gal today

I think another thread mentioned how fat the oil industry is.....

I love uncle Sam for teaching me about Helpful Hemp. Admiting that it has been used in the service of man for thousands and thousands of years.

Which brings up the question,

Why prohibit progress??

[bwalker42]

ok, here's another one, Hemp is used effectively in skin care products. they have no THC in the products, and are woderful on the skin.

[cockeyedbob]

luv it ... smoke enough and ol' bob could just imagine he was goin' somewhere ... save a lotta gas ... everyone a smilin' and stuff ...

[bwalker42]

Originally Posted by cockeyedbob

luv it ... smoke enough and ol' bob could just imagine he was goin' somewhere ... save a lotta gas ... everyone a smilin' and stuff ...

lmao cute... And what is A responsible Marajuana user?? what does that look like?
IMHO the only difference between Alchohol and ciggarettes and marijuana is this,
Ciggarettes have the most addictive drug know to man Nicotine!
Alchohol - well let's see, yup lots of deaths attributed to it, both by dwi, and alchohol poisoning.
they are LEGAL
What are the Cannabis stats?
It's my understanding that cannabis users are a non violent people which explains the passiveness at letting this go on for so long.

You see no one wants to admit it, but if I were to take a survey of closet smokers, and get the truth, what would i find out???

My point is about the economy, and all the non drug products that come from hemp.

I think hemp is very highly possibly a miracle plant that deserves a lot more better of a reputation than what it has been given. The image that was created of it from an era of ignorance. 1937. remember the mentality of the age. if you can feel the mentality of the age you can get a better understanding.

in other words, 5000 marketable... retail... products

C'mon, put yer thinkin caps on and think. Remember. I know there are a lot of people older and younger than me on here, but I want to glean from the elders...
and learn from the younger, and teach what I know.

Here's another one, Jewelry....everybody loves jewelry, heck even wildlife likes jewelry!!

What ever happened to free thinking, "Freedom"
Let freedom Ring... Freedom of speech
Don't tell me it's all just a bunch of bs

What if I wanted to make hemp jewelry for a living??? Or line for me vessel,
If I do, it makes me an outlaw.
heee haw
B

[cockeyedbob]

bwalker42

yer right on

Mother Nature gives us all we require, food, water, procreation, and a wealth of substances to make the above palatable ... all She requires is that we return them and ourselves to the food chain when we're done. Can't fathom all the fuss ... however, bob draws the line at smokin' closets.

Read somewhere that George Washington wanted the country to grow hemp for a variety of reasons, primarily economic, but he never inhaled ...

I suppose one could genetically engineer hemp to not produce it's recreationally endearing properties and thus become federally acceptable, however, water for large scale irrigation is gonna be the big problem ... "Sorry, Cheech, we can't drive no more 'cause of the drought."

Best we learn to conserve.

[bwalker42]

Originally Posted by cockeyedbob

bwalker42

however, bob draws the line at smokin' closets.

LMAO, Bob, you're cracken me...
I would like to talk to Mr Washington on the subject, nevertheless.
However, if one genetically ingineered hemp/cannabis not to produce the thc cannanaboid that produces the effects so desired by it's users, then by my estimation, the apprx 20% of the population who uses cannabis, would not participate and will go on as usual as it has been for ever since it was prohibited, and the $66 billion that the population spends on it annually will still be spent, the money will still go where it is going, the arrests still will be made, cannabis users still will be non violent, and the $70 billion that goes into the "War on Drugs"... [**(prolly conceived in a time when the gvt wanted to have more controll over the people at the time, remember it was the 70's. Was the war on drugs after that, after VietNam?? Did our gvt just need a war and started a war on it's own children???" Did they research the books to see which stupid law they could abuse over the public??)}]
will still be used, and the prisons will still be built to put a non violent people away from their family and children, tearing families apart, causing poverty because of the family members that can't work because of it. And the real criminals will be put back on the street. You know the child molestors, child rapist, murderers, and the like.

On the other hand if it is overturned, (and there is already the hemp species that only has .03% of the thc cannanaboid) it will almost immidiately turn the situation around for this country.
Police will be able to do the real work to keep the streets safe for us and our children because the $70 billion annually spent arresting, processing cannabis users, will be spent on the real criminals. Combined with the $66 billion that will be put back into our own economy from the users, will definitely stop the financial bleeding and not be just a bandaid, because it will put the herb into the right hands to be controlled, yup by good ole uncle Sam.

wish I could find that poster of U Sam smoking a reefer, hahahahah!


okok,

It's my understanding that medically speaking, cannabis is used for;

nausea
vomiting (stops it immidiately)
glaucoma
liver (hep c)
appetite (increases, which important for Chemo patients)
pain
muscle relaxant
anxiety
depression
hopelessness
insomnia
asthma
to name a few.

I also understand that the medical profession was horrofied by all of this, as the feds took all power away from them to treat their patients with it.

But the "responsible users" say they use it for recreation, instead of alchohol. They say that they should have a right to have a choice what they put into their bodies. They say that cannabis is better for you than alchohol.

Speaking as an herbologist, which btw is not a recognized study in the state of TX, I don't ever think I have ever seen an herb so useful to society.
We were taught that it is bad, but is it really?? I wanna know.

I think it's time for the truth, as usual.
B

[flyingwelshman]

is a licensed hemp producer.

His crop is THC free (or extremely reduced)

He presses his seeds to extract the oil - which has been approved for human consumption. They have been found to be very high (pardon the pun) in the alpha-linoleic acids (omega-3, omega-6). These fats have been proven to have excellent health benefits.

The cake (residue left after pressing) gets used to feed his animals and ground into flour.

He is working with a poultry producer to see if the healthy components of the hemp are retained in the bird flesh.

So far the results have been delicious. I told him he should call the product 'fried chicken', he just rolled his eyes. The CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) is evaluating the hemp as an animal feed.

I have experimented with the hemp and found it can have a nice flavour.
I have used the oil for cooking, but it is at its best as a drizzle (the best was drizzled over duck carpaccio), the hemp flour can be used in baked goods but it contains no gluten and has a strong flavour so when I use it in bread I use about 10 - 15% hemp flour to 85 - 90% wheat flour.

I also made a pretty mean pasta dough with the hemp. I used it in the same proportion with semolina flour as with the breads as you need that gluten to give the pasta its texture. I used the pasta dough to make a hemp and bison lasagna.

[bwalker42]

[quote=flyingwelshman;295772]is a licensed hemp producer.

His crop is THC free (or extremely reduced) I understand.

He presses his seeds to extract the oil I would like to try this process- which has been approved for human consumption. That's awesome!! They have been found to be very high (pardon the pun) in the alpha-linoleic acids (omega-3, omega-6). These fats have been proven to have excellent health benefits. yes they have!! Which raises the question, What is the vitamin/mineral content, and how is it put together, in this herb?

The cake (residue left after pressing) gets used to feed his animals and ground into flour. From the seeds??

He is working with a poultry producer to see if the healthy components of the hemp are retained in the bird flesh. I would be interested in finding out more about this process.

So far the results have been delicious. I told him he should call the product 'fried chicken', he just rolled his eyes. The CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) is evaluating the hemp as an animal feed. I wonder what the USA is doing, if anything.

I have experimented with the hemp and found it can have a nice flavour.
Now that's interesting...
I have used the oil for cooking, but it is at its best as a drizzle (the best was drizzled over duck carpaccio), hmmmm the hemp flour can be used in baked goods but it contains no gluten and has a strong flavour so when I use it in bread I use about 10 - 15% hemp flour to 85 - 90% wheat flour.
This is interesting indeed!

I also made a pretty mean pasta dough with the hemp. Really??? I used it in the same proportion with semolina flour as with the breads as you need that gluten to give the pasta its texture. I made pasta dough once so I know the process you are talking about. I used the pasta dough to make a hemp and bison lasagna.It sounds delicious!! I wonder what I could do with a crawfish etouffee'?? [/quote]


This is very helpful to me, thank you...
Brenda