in states where you can grow pot legally is hemp legal?

if pot is legal for medical use it seems its price is still high competing with the drug cartels to keep them in business

do you think pot can help with cancer esp hemp oil?

do you think raw hemp seed should be legal its the best source of oil?

hemp seed for biofuel?

Prices are pretty high for the good dro. You can still get some good reggie for a good price at least here in Kentucky. We have a store here that only sells stuff made of hemp. It is kinda cool all the uses for the plant......

I have no personal knowledge of pricing, however all markets ultimately obey the pressures of supply and demand.

Where demand is hi, and supply low, prices will be hi.
When risk increases, price will increase.

where will you find the Acreage to produce that amount of Fuel?

Actually, the acreage wouldn't be that hard to come up with... I could easily augment my current crop yields with hemp by just harvesting what grows wild along the ditches and fence rows. It's actually a win/win for farmers and the environment. We no longer have to pay to spray a "noxious weed" and can pocket a little extra cash in the process.

I guess it would be.



The Government will never fix a problem as long as they can avoid doing so.

I would guess that the price is largely driven by the cost of business and taxes. If pot were legalized, the price would drop like a rock.



I don't know, but it opens a bigger discussion. People should be allowed to take whatever drugs they want for the treatment of their illnesses. If a cancer patient wants heroin and crack, who am I to stand in his way?



Yes, it should be legal. Is it the best source of oil? No.



It's not that easy. If you trade crop lands from food to fuel, people are going to starve. Usually poor people in poor countries who already hate us. Not a good idea.

Actually it wouldn't necessarily have to be food crop ground as hemp can grow in almost any climate. Hemp is also a textile, so it could be rotated in the cotton belt easily without disrupting either food or textile production.

It can also be grown in wooded areas, allowing places that produce nut trees to have a secondary crop on land that is otherwise not used.

Just a couple of examples of how growing hemp won't make people starve.

In order to turn it into fuel, it would have to be harvestable. That means wooded areas are out, if you want to use machines to do the work. Using people to do the work would be possible, but expensive. You have to bring in this crop of fuel hemp at a lower cost than petroleum.

How could you rotate the crops (cotton/hemp) without experiencing a decrease in cotton production?

I know all of this is probably just propaganda to get marijuana legalized. That's fine. I think it should be legalized anyways. But you should know, that the smart money is on electric right now for fuel. Nuclear and hydro production of electric energy coupled with super capacitors. This would be cheaper and cleaner than any fuel, bio or otherwise.

If one thing is certain about the farming community, and as a farmer I've seen this firsthand, machinery can always be adapted to fit a need. The large forest reserves where nut trees are grown have extensive areas between the actual trees. This is necessary so that "shakers" can go between the trees and cause the nuts to fall into the harvesters. If these machines can get into the wooded area, a "hemp" machine could easily be made and adapted to go into wooded areas, reducing the need for manual labor. A current "swather" and "baler" could easily be adapted to fit that need.

Replacing one textile with another doesn't cause too much of a demand problem as far as cotton is concerned. What would probably actually take place is with increased use of hemp fabrics, cotton prices would more than likely fall. Hemp/cotton blends would also become more prevalent, which would probably be a lot better for all of us, as the petroleum based rayon and nylon would be in less demand.