The Davos Question - Hemp and Cannabis

[TEOTKU]

Nice JOB! Ron Paul and Barney Frank are bringing a bill to the floor today in congress formerly known as HR 5843. Call your congress person and tell them that this is a good start and that they should support this bill and more bills that ultimately help us legalize industrial hemp.

[HempLogic]

Great summary. Keep spreading the word and one day soon hemp will be re-legalized in the USA.

[BloodTar]

Until you get the pothead stigma away from hemp then it will never be legalized. I suggest that the next time there are any "legalize pot" rallies, that you cancel them because they nothing to help the legalization of hemp for any industrial use.

[mrchakabot]

greaT VIDEO!!!! But Im voting no!!! fuck enabling the gov to steal from another US industry!! keep it black market!!!

[mpctheg]

if it was legal the police would actually have to do their jobs

[timsim1001]

good video.

[lowcarb85]

This is the best vid Ive seen in a long time. If you don't mind I am going to try and spread your word!

[SnarkLicker]

heh... I love the concept of money being "wasted". What a convenient little connection we've all been talked into accepting. Look, all the money you ever had and all the money you will ever have is all still around. That *you* don't particularly have any of it right now is not a function of money. Money doesn't go bad like milk or slip away like time. You can *personally* "waste" *your* money supply, but money itself can't be wasted. That's what makes it money.

[SnarkLicker]

@SnarkLicker ... My point being; you describe the money going into the criminal justice system as a result of hemp prohibition as being "wasted". It's somewhere. Somebody's got it. Right now, somebody somewhere is taking that money that you call "wasted" and mailing it to an Aston Martin dealership. Or a Congressperson. Or transvestites... all kinds of stuff, really.

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But it's all still... y'know... around.

[HearSeeLearn]

You have a great voice & present interesting information. You sound similar to Micheal Moore;p

[gringodeltoro1]

One day they're going to make walking outside illigal. People will have more health problem and the pharmaceutic company will fill up their pockets even more.

[idontcare80]

I agree with just about every point in this video but one. Growing any kind of plant to produce fuel for use in our vehicles is really quite stupid. The amount of land required would be enormous to produce enough fuel for even the most efficient vehicles. Demand for such crops would only result in the destruction of more undeveloped land. Solar energy should be the main focus of anyone interesting in producing truly low impact energy.

[happybuddyperson]

idontcare80, you realize u can grow hemp plants in 4 months? if that area does not go under a certain temperature, you can have 3 crops of hemp every year, per one farm

also its only sunny half of the day or less so solar gets weaker in the winter, therefore HEMP IS THE BEST THING FOR ENERGY

[idontcare80]

Sigh... Why use land, water and energy from the sun to grow hemp, then use energy to process the hemp into fuel when you can just use energy from the sun that has been collected by solar panels on your roof for all the same things? How stupid is that?

[idontcare80]

...and to address your point about the sun not shining all the time, there are batteries coming out soon that are inexpensive, long lasting and compact which could be used to store energy for a home when the sun isn't shining. Hydrogen could also be produced with solar energy as a means of storing energy when the sun isn't shining, it could also be used to power our vehicles.

[switchgrassfuel]

@idontcare80 I am only looking at hemp as an energy crop because solar panels on your roof is not as efficient as ethanol for driving a car. I still am a fan of solar panels but i would have to have a roof as big as the metro dome to help with my daily commute and car batteries that go twice as far. I hope i can afford to shorten my commute some day. solar is still a good option it just wont work for me yet. maybe in the future wen it is improved i will look at solar again.

[idontcare80]

@switchgrassfuel Actually, hemp ethanol isn't an option at all right now, solar energy is. Also, there are people that are able to offset the power usage of their home and vehicles entirely with a solar energy system that fits easily on their roof. The system required to do that may not be cheap or small, but it's not as impractical as you make it out to be.

[switchgrassfuel]

@idontcare80 I am not ruling out solar at all. I am just looking at many different possibilities. Hemp might not be an option right now but we have the technology to use it if it were legal. I do think Ethanol is more efficient for driving long range and a long range car is what my job requires. but under different circumstances i might try solar. I didn't mean to imply that it is impractical at all. jut that my life is not set up to put it to good use right now.

[ripousse]

@idontcare80 because you can use the fiber and the seed, then do energy with it..

Ethanol or Methanol.

¨ Personally, I believe ethanol from corn is a scam and we should go toward methanol.

Search it

[ripousse]

@idontcare80 You would be surprised how much land is not being used to keep the price of food higher....

I believe its feasible...

how much land do you think it takes to produce fuel for a vehicle ?

Those kinds of arguments are usually accompanied by numbers...

Search it please

[idontcare80]

@ripousse Yup, we just need to keep bulldozing the crap out of the planet to make room for fuel crops! Forget about the fact that in order to grow enough of anything (fast growing, high yield, etc) to provide enough fuel for the current US vehicle fleet alone would require as much arable land as is currently in use to grow food crops. And nevermind that the US vehicle fleet only uses about 14% of all the energy consumed in this country. I've already done my homework, thanks.

[lDavidx]

Rick Simpson's hemp oil = Cancer Cure!

[amigojapan]

OK, I love you videos but in this case I disagree with you. Not that I know about the possible benefitial uses of hemp. and I agree that people shouldnt be punished for its use. But I think awarness of possible bad trips and permanent mental disease that cannabis can cause should be taught more. I myself now have to take alprozalam and neuleptil daily to calm my panic disored that was diagnosed as comming from smoking marijuana.

[Saduwo]

Yeah, I feel the same about this and his others. I love the others, but... >_> most of these arguments for legalizing pot is just for the sake of them being able to smoke it and waste time...

[hereticjoeyjoey]

KEEP IT GREEN HEELZ YHAAAA!!!!

[hypnofan35]

In fact, status lust, leading to laws favoring the rule makers financially is the overshadowing crime of control, but that one is always "legal" especially if there is status and collusion involved. You can be sure, that a status person will push you over a cliff for money or personal aggrandization. Laws criminalizing plants is the worst one yet. You can save the world and be high, or destroy the world and be richer than the people who like life. Get the gov to stop devil worshipping.

[hypnofan35]

We have to realize that humanity in general "courts disaster". If one person can make life harder for another person, that means they have status over them and are above them. These laws are the "spikes and thorns" of hierarchal order. They do not have to make sense, they only have to give one person the "right" to punish another person. Unhappily, a great deal of civilzed reality is like that. This is the part of nature that we deny.

[Loprohibidosabemejor]

complitly agree with you. here in spain im trying to show as much people as i can the beneficts of legalization... right now we´re in a great Economical depretion. & i think that one good reason, why they should legalize it.

never give up my friend. I wont!

Legalize IT! Free Marihuana

[blurglide]

I agree that it should be legalized, although I question your numbers. Ethanol for instance; right now it can only be made from crops with sugar. Hemp is cellulose. The technology isn't there yet.

[EddyMcK]

LEGALIZE IT

[beriukay]

No, swing like a pendulum to the opposite extreme... illegalize not having it.

[buttonsputon]

research INDUSTRIAL HEMP with it all of its VALUABLE commodities we are not taking advantage of ECONOMICALLY. hemp fuel hemp food hemp paper hemp textiles hemp biodegradable plastics hemp medicinal & recreational uses

research it and spread the knowledge

[aolthof007]

Legalize it! Stop prohibition now by sending a letter to the new President and telling him.

[RandomCatFilms]

actualy the most useful plant is Amaranth

[eequalsfb]

Not even close, sir.

You can't build a house or power an airplane with Amaranth. You can't replace the timber/paper industry and save the rain forest with amaranth. There are no medicinal qualities in amaranth, and it's relative nutritional value is dubious.

Prevents absorption of calcium? No thanks. I'll stick with my hemp flour.

[5tonyvvvv]

@eequalsfb Amaranth, Quinoa, Millet, Teff are all good gluten free foods, But Cannabis is a Superfood, and Medicine! The government and pharmaceutical companies make money by keeping it illegal.

[mrchakabot]

@RandomCatFilms OHHHhhhhh you got owned!!!!!!!

[domburtje]

Indonesian government must legalize it.

[OldSmellyCrotch]

Ok, my responce- I have been looking into the many aspects of improvement that hemp can bring and can state, without doubt, hemp is the plant of plants. Yet its No.1 best seller would be its ability to cure people of cancer, well, it cures pretty much everything and this is why I believe it has been made illegal. Big Pharma would be on its arse if hemp was made legal. Yeah, ok, maybe some people would live better quality lives, but please think about the fat rich man that makes the drugs!?!

[VINNYMOR]

We are surrounded by authoritarians and tyrants who have no respect for individual rights. Niether Obama nor McCain will improve a thing.

People detest Ron Paul because they hate freedom for others.

[SinisterDisaster]

Obama was talking about making it unauthorized for the Federal government DEA guys to arrest people who get the permission to have cannabis from the state. I bet our founding fathers would be pissed off seeing that the central government has way more power over the states, I mean they wanted the federal government to have power over the states but only slightly. Like having the same currency, military etc.

[VINNYMOR]

Bastiat, author of "The Law" described with irrefutable logic that the legitimate function of government is confined to protecting individual rights. Smokong pot does no harm to another, therefor it is your right. If government interferes, it is engaged in the very act of force from which it is required to protect. Government is the criminal entity not the pot user.

[ironman270]

great vid!

[toakspliff]

very good.

[katahajime]

thank dupont and their shitys cotton fibers patents

[eequalsfb]

Yea, there is a ton of stuff I would have loved to cover in this video, but I was trying to hit 4:20 seconds. LOL!

[SmokingHatchetman]

Sould make another that applys to the U.S. Australia and the U.K. or prehaps on that applys to how the world is effected

[asimplekindofman]

Illegalization of marijuana.

Global Warming. Happy illuminate.

[eight38s]

I'm gona grow some weed now.

[stupidtreehugger]

Great arithmetic! Great vid! If logic ruled..

04:15 Its even more sick and twisted than 'War for Oil'.

video.google:

Greg Palast Blood for No Oil - turning off the spigot in Iraq and Saudi

Lyndsey Williams The Energy Non-Crisis - huge oil reserves in Alaska.

Its also fairly well known that there are huge reserves of everything short of coconut cookies under Antarctica.

Its about controlling the oilfields, not developing them, and keeping the price of crude going ever upwards.

[kenotube]

Good video. I agree that Marijuana should be legalized. Not to be nit-picky though, I disagree with the statistic that Marijuana causes zero deaths annually. For one thing, there are DUI deaths due to Marijuana. Also, while I think it should be legalized, it should be well-known that long-term usage reduces fertility and does damage brain cells, but, tobacco and alcohol are legal and they are both FAR more dangerous. And the other usages for the plant seal the deal.

[eequalsfb]

I dont want to nit-pick either, but any potential deaths that may be caused by impairment are the result of driving under the influence, NOT marijuana. Also, a positive result for marijuana only indicates that a person has smoked marijuana in the last few weeks, NOT that they are impaired while driving. So, EVERY traffic fatality involving a person who smokes marijuana (even responsibly), will register a positive test result. ZERO deaths annually can be attributed to marijuana alone.

[SmokingHatchetman]

DAME STRAIGHT. Listen to tha man he knows his shit.

[ripousse]

@kenotube marijuana does not damage brain cells

[duboisiboy]

@kenotube Smoking marijuana does not damage brain cells

[JanakBlue]

@duboisiboy You're right, in fact, a study that was cited in The Union just so happened to find the exact opposite;

cannabis use may actually increase brain cell production and activity.

[CanadianBeaver]

PEACE and LOVE!

[billsarebullyesyes]

HEMP would put BIG PHARMA, BIG OIL, and many other robber barons OUT OF BUSINESS. this is the reason it is illegal. Gooogle "the History of Marijuana" very informative.

[withoutmercyuk]

The forests are levelled for lumber to make paper, mostly. Isnt it so bizarre that the person who started that abhorrent habit is the one who makes the non biodegradeable plastic, paint, paper and rayons. More bizarre is that same person is one of those, who bullied to illegalise cannabis in the first place because it ate into his profits. Mr Dupont, who has more than greed to answer to. He has screwed with the balance of nature, but it seems accepted. And cannabis is evil????

[withoutmercyuk]

the US govt has a cannabis farm in mississippi, from where they administer medical marujuana. In 1977 the govt took a man to court for use of med maru, they lost. Randall Vs US (NDIA) 1978, tho Bush Snr tried to stop it (failed) the us gov is required by LAW to provide med marujuana to at least ten patients, and still does. WHY are people in prison for possessing med maru, when the gov a)has a farm and b)is required by law to provide. Hypocrisy at its worst. Check it out yourself. Legalise it!

[elichans]

and the men who made the laws either never even tried it, or simply do not understand the positive sides.

there's a good side and a bad to just about anything ~ except idiocy, and corruption.

the laws are made by corrupt fucks.

[SmokingHatchetman]

LOO couldnt have said it better myself

[video814]

wow, the most eloquent, rationally calm presentation for marijuana. good job.

[alphagoldy]

yeah we need to legalize it, and have a better world!

peace

[ThePolitikMan]

This is great! I fave!

[Barklord]

It seems strange that these ideas have been batted around for 20 years or more that I can remember.

[MeIoco]

Not to mention that taxable aspect of the industry. We save tax payers millions, actually make money for the country, reduce crime and overpopulation in prisons and solve the fossil fuel shortage stopping wares based on resources.. etc.. etc.

In light of all these facts, why is it still illegal?

SIN! a bronze ages theology still clinging to man kind to this very day.

[mconn2112]

Don't forget about the fact that it is a great source on revenue for the govt. especially the seizures in the arrests.

[mconn2112]

I love this video man. I used to educate people quite a bit more than I have recently about Marijuana and hemp reform. With a visual meduium like YT, it really helps with understanding. It poiants a clearer picture, even though showing the comparison statistics should be an overwhelming realization in and of itself.