The cannabis car fantasy!
Miracles never end with the cannabis culture like the medical cures. Now a man has built a car that mostly uses hemp-based building materials. He believes that such a car would control the carbon production of a billion cars that now crowd the planet and bring about positive climate change. Hemp is related to the marijuana species and has been making rope for ages. Hemp can build a plastic that resembles fiberglass.
How was the car made? From a hundred pounds of Chinese hemp! The material from within the hemp stalk was combined with a resin that resulted in a very strong plastic. The car body came to be thus molded. Deitzen wishes to accept custom orders for building such cars that may cost $30,000 for a 140 HP model. Though it does appear like the first such attempt, Henry Ford in 1941 attempted something similar but the Second World War got in the way. It was called the soybean car and is believed to have been a mixture of wheat straw, flax and hemp, bound together by soybean resin.
The flexibility and strength of hemp are outstanding. The car body, dashboard and rugs use hemp, though the car frame, electrical and engine parts do not. Just imagine building a car out of cannabis and driving it on bio-fuels to reduce carbon emissions! It could well become a reality.
The SAM opposition to cannabis
In America, SAM (smart approaches to marijuana) is teaming up with several pot-opposed groups to counter AUMA and other cannabis support groups. SAM has a budget of $300,000 for the purpose. SAM believes that children are at risk from lax marijuana laws. The November election certainly encourages pot enthusiasts and SAM wishes to convince the public that unrestricted cannabis is a danger across the country. SAM has blamed cannabis for criminal violence, genetic problems and cancer, and has teamed up with pot opposition groups in California and Arizona, Maine, Nevada and Massachusetts. AUMA (Adult use of Marijuana act) has enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot. AUMA has collected $3.3 million and hopes to gather $20 million soon.
You can’t buy cannabis edibles, but can cook them!
According to present Canadian supreme court law, legal medical cannabis users can consume it in addition to smoking it but cannot buy edibles. Health Canada has now allowed legal medical marijuana companies to sell cannabis oil. Patients are cooking their own cannabis-based recipes at home. Some believe that eating cannabis is better than smoking it for more steady highs. Meanwhile, the cannabis edibles business grows to mighty proportions in Colorado, where recreational cannabis is legal. Perhaps the same would happen in Canada next year, as some expect.
