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

[Donovan Arnold]

That's the next excuse for UI Professors to hear, "My roommate smoked my homework." 

Best Regards,

Donovan

--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Hemp: was Failed Drug Policies from Nixon to Bush
To: "Ellen Roskovich" <gussie443 at hotmail.com>, donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com, "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>, vision2020 at moscow.com, garrettmc at verizon.net
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 7:34 PM

FYI -

Here is where I purchase my hemp paper.  although paper is a very small 
portion of their product line.

http://www.rawganique.com/HempPaperProducts.htm

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

> 
> 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
recha> rge 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
k> eeping a happy balance and not hastening the depletion of the aquifer in
ou> r 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
TH> AT kind of hemp.  But, I have a feeling you knew that and were just
makin> g 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
Palo> use. 
> 
> 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,
vi> sion2020 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
(p> eas, 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
alrea> dy 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 ve> rizon.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
Bu> sh
> > 
> > 
> > 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
h> emp 
> > have been tested in academic research. A study carried out by the 
> > University of Melbourne found that hemp production for textiles,
oilsee> d 
> > 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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