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

[Ellen Roskovich]

Hi Donovan. . . . actually I think it might make a HUGE difference because I think I read somewhere that the yearly rain/snowfall does little to recharge our aquifer. . . so as we use it, it's just. . . .oooop's. . . GONE!  That's one of the reasons why I have a brown lawn and take short showers.

 

So if we're just using only rain/snowfall to raise crops, we're kind of keeping a happy balance and not hastening the depletion of the aquifer in our effort to feed people.

 

And as far as the college kids go, I don't think they'll be smoking their shorts, or sneakers, or homework. . . because industrial hemp isn't THAT kind of hemp.  But, I have a feeling you knew that and were just making a funny. . . . ha!

 

Ellen A. Roskovich 
 


Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 17:36:21 -0800
From: donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Hemp: was Failed Drug Policies from Nixon to Bush
To: thansen at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com; garrettmc at verizon.net; gussie443 at hotmail.com





Ellen,

I am not a farmer. But I would image that all living things require water. Being that hemp is a living thing, I would imagine it needed water. 

If it takes water from the aquifer, or the snow, I don't think it makes a difference, it is water being taken from our little desert in the Palouse. 

But I am sure all the college students would love the hemp. : P

Best Regards,

Donovan

--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Ellen Roskovich <gussie443 at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Ellen Roskovich <gussie443 at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Hemp: was Failed Drug Policies from Nixon to Bush
To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>, donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com, vision2020 at moscow.com, garrettmc at verizon.net
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 4:08 PM




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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