What will they think of next? 

Quote:Flying high in the world’s first hemp aircraft

Canadian cannabis fanatic Derek Kesek let his mind wander, contemplating the infinite possibilities of hemp-based innovation. That’s when it occurred to him: while people have come up with some 25,000 uses for the herb, no one has yet built an airplane out of it and operate it on hemp fuel. So, what the heck, he resolved build the plane rather than let it become a pipe dream.

I would love to see this product become reality! Here's hoping it doesn't end up being another DeLorean event.

Quote:As of 2025, Hempearth has continued its efforts, and the company has stated that the plane is set to be built almost entirely from hemp, with everything from the seats to the wings made from hemp composites.
The plane is expected to have a wingspan of 36 feet and can accommodate one pilot and four passengers.
The company also mentioned that the first flight of the hemp plane is planned to take place at the Wright Brothers Memorial in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Despite the challenges, Hempearth remains optimistic about the project, and the company continues to develop hemp composites that could potentially replace traditional materials in aviation and other industries.

It seems to me that hemp needed to be criminalized in order monitize other more harmful products. Hemp has so many uses; you can somke it, eat it, wear it and now FLY in it, just as soon as the world's first hemp aircraft is completed!

(Yesterday, 03:37 PM)Nugget Wrote: What will they think of next? 


I would love to see this product become reality! Here's hoping it doesn't end up being another DeLorean event.


It seems to me that hemp needed to be criminalized in order monitize other more harmful products. Hemp has so many uses; you can somke it, eat it, wear it and now FLY in it, just as soon as the world's first hemp aircraft is completed!

Recyclable too, the world's biggest joint . . .

(Yesterday, 03:37 PM)Nugget Wrote: It seems to me that hemp needed to be criminalized in order monitize other more harmful products. Hemp has so many uses; you can somke it, eat it, wear it and now FLY in it, just as soon as the world's first hemp aircraft is completed!

Cheech and Chong approve, though their van was made of regular weed.

Interestingly enough, the shoe is now on the other foot with hemp and it's being used as a substitute for a less harmful product derived from regular weed. It was legalized in a farm bill and loopholes were quickly exploited.

Now there are legislators and lobbyists that want to keep normal weed illegal because there's enormous profit in the sale of hemp derived THC, which is being sold in gas stations and is even advertised on another conspiracy forum we're all very familiar with. I'm glad our admin isn't peddling potentially dangerous and unregulated drugs to our unwitting members. It seems incredibly hypocritical -at best- for somebody that so vociferously expressed outrage over the sale of prepper supplies to now peddle drugs they have no way of knowing are actually safe, though in my opinion it's downright sleazy even without the abrupt shift in moral posture. Some people have real morals, but some people just have a price tag and a community to exploit.

The trouble is that you need up to 100 times more biomass to extract a meaningful amount of THC from hemp because it's found in such low quantities in the plant. The testing that these gas station gummies go through might measure for the THC or CBD content, if they even measure that, but nothing else. It's not economically feasible to test for all the potential agrochemical contaminants and there is no regulation, so they just don't do it. When you process massive amounts of biomass via chemical extraction, with unknown concentrations of things that can be harmful like heavy metals from soils or organophosphates from pesticides, you have no idea what's in the finished product or at what concentrations those toxins may be found. Over time these kinds of toxins bioaccumulate, with the potential for serious harm that isn't readily apparent during casual use. One day maybe you find a lump, maybe one day you have a hand tremor, but you just don't know until it happens and then it's too late to do anything about it.

Just a little concentrated neurotoxin, maybe with a touch of concentrated carcinogen, but I'm sure it's nothing to worry about. We know that it's -probably- at least as safe as bath salts that mimic methamphetamine or they wouldn't be selling it at gas stations, so there's that... probably.

The upside here is that if normal marijuana is legalized, there will be a dearth of hemp output to be used for sustainable products (and maybe even a few planes). I would buy many more hemp and bamboo products if they were more widely available, though I certainly wouldn't buy gas station gummies derived from them. Fortunately, I don't have to rely on potentially toxic hemp extracts. An Instant Pot, some olive oil, along with a few ounces of very affordable and legal marijuana, makes an ample supply of full spectrum cannabis oil. The CBD dominant strains tend to be more expensive, but it's still much more cost effective than commercial edibles and doesn't carry the same entirely unknown risks as things you can buy at a gas station.

I'll leave the drugs that have no quality assurance and quality control to the "safe and effective" crowd, but I would love to be able to get more textiles and home goods made with hemp. I really like hemp seeds too. They're not readily available here, but we've ordered them from some of the organic suppliers in the past.