[Vision2020] Hemp: was Failed Drug Policies from Nixon to Bush

[Ellen Roskovich]

Here's a dumb question from a city dweller. . . .   Are any of our crops (peas, lentils, wheat and timber) actually irrigated with "Palouse water", which I'm guessing Donovan means from the aquifer?   I thought all the farmers around here relied on rainfall and snowpack for moisture.

 

It would seem like if hemp didn't require any more moisture than what already is being  grown here, it would be an ideal crop.

 

Just wondering. . . . 

 

Ellen A. Roskovich 
 
> To: donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com; vision2020 at moscow.com; garrettmc at verizon.net
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 23:32:38 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Hemp: was Failed Drug Policies from Nixon to Bush
> 
> 
> It was asked:
> 
> "Would it not cost us valuable Palouse water to grow hemp?"
> 
> Alot less than the water sources required to grow pine or cedar.
> 
> In fact . . .
> 
> Courtesy of "BioRegional: Solutions for Sustainability" at
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/bd8pmj
> 
> 
> "The environmental benefits of textile, paper and oil production from hemp 
> have been tested in academic research. A study carried out by the 
> University of Melbourne found that hemp production for textiles, oilseed 
> and paper as an alternative to cotton textiles, oil and forestry would 
> increase economic efficiency whilst reducing the ecological footprint of 
> production of these goods by up to 50%."
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
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