The New Green Building Trend is Bricks Of Hemp

[Jacob Redmond]

Builders are using cannabis "not in joints but between joists."

The jokes about homes "going up in smoke" are inevitable.

But the truth is that one of the reasons the cannabis-based building material called hempcrete is gaining acceptance in home construction is that it's entirely fireproof. As a recent New York Times story reported, hempcrete has been used as a building material in Europe for decades, and lately it's been incorporated in more homes and offices in the U.S. A small group of hemp entrepreneurs envisions a time very soon when hempcrete will be totally mainstream.

Hempcrete is made with the wood-like interior part of a Cannabis plant, which resemble the look and feel of balsa chips. They're combined with lime and water, and the resulting material is a block that provides terrific natural insulation, while still being flexible, breathable, and, as mentioned already, fireproof.

And there's no need to worry about teenage hooligans ripping out your insulation to smoke it. Hempcrete contains an almost imperceptible amount of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana that gets you high.

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[stones55]

Would it be possible to throw a few of these hemp bricks at the heads of our government representatives that are still fighting against total legalization of cannabis? There's a remote chance that it might wake them up to what the people they represent want, and if it doesn't --- oh well --- most of them deserve a slap in the head anyway.

 

[Cannabelle]

This is actually very ancient technology that is being rediscovered again. Imagine how much more advanced we would all be if hemp and marijuana were not culturally purged in modern society. Hemp is an incredible, space age building material which rivals graphene in strength and electrical conductivity. Hemp is the future of ultra micro computers, space travel, robotics, architecture, medicine and nutrition. Heck, hemp can also be used with other flora to clean contaminated soils or teraform a distant planet.

Currently, I am developing hemp plants which are compact enough to grow in cramped biospheres, with high strength carbon fiber which can be converted into hemp based graphene substitute for 3D printer putty technology and flexible building sheets that can be shaped in modular origami fashion for compact, transformer robotic technology. My plants will also contain high CBD and myrcene for medicinal purposes. Hemp sprouts already make for a highly nutritious, energy filled, delicious nutrition. Dream big America. The future can be ours.

 

[stones55]

It is so, so sad that our government is so pig-headed that they cannot see beyond their own pompous snouts. The more they get involved in something, the more it gets screwed up. If any of these blockheads were part of a corporate team seeking advanced uses for natural products, they'd all be FIRED for impeding corporate progress.

BUT, because their behavior is under the governmental umbrella, they can turn their noses up to an assertive, constructive approach to finally admitting how much value this plant can have to this planet and its inhabitants.

The problem is --- they don't care. That snout on their faces is longer than the trip from here to Pluto.

It's a tough road when your own government works in the opposite direction of those they "represent", and I use that term very, very loosely. In fact, sarcasm has a place when it's so painful to really see what has been happening since 1937. Sarcasm can push some of the total disgust and pain experienced by our government's past and PRESENT approach to this issue of cannabis legalization.

Peace. We need some...

 

[Cannabelle]

It is so, so sad that our government is so pig-headed that they cannot see beyond their own pompous snouts. The more they get involved in something, the more it gets screwed up. If any of these blockheads were part of a corporate team seeking advanced uses for natural products, they'd all be FIRED for impeding corporate progress.

BUT, because their behavior is under the governmental umbrella, they can turn their noses up to an assertive, constructive approach to finally admitting how much value this plant can have to this planet and its inhabitants.

The problem is --- they don't care. That snout on their faces is longer than the trip from here to Pluto.

It's a tough road when your own government works in the opposite direction of those they "represent", and I use that term very, very loosely. In fact, sarcasm has a place when it's so painful to really see what has been happening since 1937. Sarcasm can push some of the total disgust and pain experienced by our government's past and PRESENT approach to this issue of cannabis legalization.

Peace. We need some...

At least in America, we have the chance of reversing bad laws inspired by greedy industry lobbyists and small minded politicians. We just need to put our game hats on a play the game politics with finesse! If we don't have as much money as industry lobbyists, we use other resources to garner support. The internet is the greatest thing ever to make causes viral and send messages to politicians and the news media. Mobile technology helps us to record our interactions on the political arena. We hit the political arena dressed in perfect armor like in MMORPG. Except the armor we use are slick business attire, smiles and kindness to political staff. If you win the respect of political aides and secretaries, they can slip you into meetings with hard to contact committee chairs.

Don't give up, America. China is the birth place of ancient hemp tech and marijuana medicine. China's most important industry in ancient society was silk. The next was hemp. Hemp was important in creating enduring paper and fabrics with mulberry. Mulberry has a duo use as food for silk worms and an additive to hemp paper mixes to create fabrics for architecture, scrolls, paintings, and fabric for the people. The cultural purges in the last century also purged much of the ancient knowledge of hemp's important partnership with Chinese sericulture (silk farming) because small minds wanted to purge marijuana. Marijuana possession and distribution in China carries the death penalty even though China has warmed up to hemp cultivation again because it is used to reclaim land poisoned by industrial waste.

Americans, have easier accessibility to government than the Chinese. We can do this America! Hurrah!