Persephone wrote in message ...
On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:14:31 GMT, Charles
wrote:

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:51:14 -0600, "brsher"
wrote:

I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry tomatoes.
I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm looking
for
something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
Thank you for your
suggestions.



hemp

Actually, he makes a good point -- sorta.

People don't realize that hemp was used for so many things in ancient
times -- clothing, sails, ropes, all kinds of products.

Now, to get hemp clothing, we have to import from Canada! Ridiculous.

Today, hemp could help alleviate the looming the oil crisis -- to the
chagrin of the oilionnaires who are running this country. That's why
it will take a long time, and a desperate world situation, before
growing hemp will be "legalized" by our whores in Congress.

Hemp oil could replace petroleum in automobiles and other uses.

It grows on miserable soil; it needs no more care than a weed; it's a
natural, renewable, non-polluting crop.

Too good to be true? Not at all -- it's out there waiting...

Persephone



Yeah, but what's a home gardener supposed to do with it, other than the
obvious, which would require sharing it with the police?

On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:27:58 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:


Persephone wrote in message ...
On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:14:31 GMT, Charles
wrote:

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:51:14 -0600, "brsher"
wrote:

I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry tomatoes.
I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm looking
for
something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
Thank you for your
suggestions.



hemp

Actually, he makes a good point -- sorta.

People don't realize that hemp was used for so many things in ancient
times -- clothing, sails, ropes, all kinds of products.

Now, to get hemp clothing, we have to import from Canada! Ridiculous.

Today, hemp could help alleviate the looming the oil crisis -- to the
chagrin of the oilionnaires who are running this country. That's why
it will take a long time, and a desperate world situation, before
growing hemp will be "legalized" by our whores in Congress.

Hemp oil could replace petroleum in automobiles and other uses.

It grows on miserable soil; it needs no more care than a weed; it's a
natural, renewable, non-polluting crop.

Too good to be true? Not at all -- it's out there waiting...

Persephone



Yeah, but what's a home gardener supposed to do with it, other than the
obvious, which would require sharing it with the police?

I guess I got off the "home gardener" theme somewhat.

I really intended to suggest that very large-scale commercial
cultivation of industrial hemp could make excellent automobile fuel
--oil from seeds,-- as well as the use of hemp for its millennial
purposes like cloth,ropes, paper, etc. Instead of cutting down
ancient forests to make chopsticks, paper could be made of a cheap,
renewal resource.

Requires a change of national priorities; requires, inter alia,
ceasing to kiss up to the oilionnaires who run our country. In
short, requires pulling our national head out of our rear and working
toward the future instead of short-term profits and political payoffs.

But then, we wouldn't want to disrupt the long love-affair of the
Bush-Prescott family with their Saudi boyfriends.

Persephone

Doug Kanter wrote:

Yeah, but what's a home gardener supposed to do with it, other than the
obvious, which would require sharing it with the police?

You'd have to share _lots_ of it. Hemp strains of c. sativa contain
so little THC that you'd have to smoke several pounds of it within
one minute to feel even the slightest effect outside of a nasty
headache.

If you really want to grow something potent, try opium poppies.
Simply take a shaker of grocery store poppy seeds and shake
liberally over the selected area of your garden. Germination
rate should be better than 50%. Harvest by making light, 0.10"
deep incisions longitudinally over the spent, swollen flowers.
Scrape up the gummy exudate and allow to dry, then
collect and press into a ball of pure, homegrown opium.

Difference is, industrial hemp is a class 1 felony, while opium
poppies are completely legal.

"Father Haskell" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:

Yeah, but what's a home gardener supposed to do with it, other than the
obvious, which would require sharing it with the police?

You'd have to share _lots_ of it. Hemp strains of c. sativa contain
so little THC that you'd have to smoke several pounds of it within
one minute to feel even the slightest effect outside of a nasty
headache.

Correct, but your average police officer doesn't know the difference. Either
way, you'll be busted.

Doug Kanter wrote:
"Father Haskell" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:

Yeah, but what's a home gardener supposed to do with it, other than the
obvious, which would require sharing it with the police?

You'd have to share _lots_ of it. Hemp strains of c. sativa contain
so little THC that you'd have to smoke several pounds of it within
one minute to feel even the slightest effect outside of a nasty
headache.

Correct, but your average police officer doesn't know the difference.

Then he can't prove it.

Either
way, you'll be busted.

Where I should be able to walk.

"Father Haskell" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:
"Father Haskell" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:

Yeah, but what's a home gardener supposed to do with it, other than
the
obvious, which would require sharing it with the police?

You'd have to share _lots_ of it. Hemp strains of c. sativa contain
so little THC that you'd have to smoke several pounds of it within
one minute to feel even the slightest effect outside of a nasty
headache.

Correct, but your average police officer doesn't know the difference.

Then he can't prove it.

To arrest you, he doesn't need to be able to prove that you were planting
one type of pot vs another. That comes later.


Either
way, you'll be busted.

Where I should be able to walk.

You will, a few hours or a day later. But either way, your day is over. Too
bad, if you were hoping to go fishing. Meanwhile, on the way to the police
station, the cop will pass by a few drunk drivers, and do nothing.