Hemp !

[Frank]

Puna/Hawaii (big island) and it's vast ag lands may be the perfect spot for this crop. Young farmers get ready... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJwug7kLVKI

[kalakoa]

Hemp production will only be allowed if the State can make it more difficult/expensive than imported hemp from Thailand or elsewhere, at which point market forces will make it impractical, so that the State can point out that it was never a good idea.

Note this scenario will only play out after the Feds make industrial hemp legal; as we all know, State loves to claim "sorry no can do, preempted by higher authority".

Sigh.

[punaticbychoice]

Maybe the plan is to drive everyone out except Larry Ellison and friends.

[pahoated]

Wouldn't count hemp seeds before they sprout, probably going to take a long time before it is a crop.
http://khon2.com/2015/04/10/uh-sets-up-i...h-station/
UH sets up industrial hemp research station

UH is supposed to report to the 2016 legislature. Hemp is way overhyped anyway, on the order of using food corn to produce ethanol. Interesting novelty application, totally dumb idea in retrospect. Hemp rots when exposed to salt water, the fiber is very coarse and not suitable for clothing, rope application surpassed by synthetics. Just another case of wanting to do it because it isn't allowed.

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[Tink]

Bought some hemp shoes and they didn't last but 6 weeks before fabric failure. Company wouldn't even back up their product. Plant has a nasty habit of "migrating" from fields, choking out endemics and Taking over drain channel banks, as it is a weed. If somebody is growing the other kind of hemp product nearby it will destroy their crop from cross pollination.

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[pahoated]

This is kind of an interesting development. It looks like a really bad example of hempcrete. They are using way too much hemp in the mixture and being that close to the ocean, is going to absorb salt water like crazy. To top it off, they say the construction is 15% more expensive than using plain concrete. The big hemp push is coming out of Maui, certain people there are obsessed with it. The interesting aspect is that it is totally legal to import hemp, just illegal to grow it. There is hemp twine at Home Depot and Safeway has packaged salads with hemp seeds. So, the issue isn't whether it can be used or not, that it somehow needs to be another crop for Hawaii. The thinking that is going on is very similar to the idea that sugar cane would be a good large scale crop for Hawaii.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJwug7kLVKI

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