[DdC]

You didn't like that Melting Concrete line?

Ya got a point, there is an awful lot of concrete,
jack hammers are too loud and sledge hammers too much like work.
We can get the Ganjawar politicops caught lying about Ganja to apply it...
Glowing in the dark would be easier than ankle bracelets to keep tabs on.

I guess you're not a fan of unstable spontaneous disintegration of atomic nuclei?

It never amazes me when politikans do stupid things after they've been warned they are about to do something stupid. Drug wars, Cold Wars, Police Actions. Stupid pays... Without the 100,000 cancer kids from Chernobyl how would Ely Lilly and Searl Pharmaceuticals get rich? I think Chernobyl was a "lesser evil" commercial to maintain the dysfunction of fossil fools. ... see the Exxon Valdeze wasn't bad at all compared to "the cleaner Nuclear power". Not a big surprise that 2nd and 3rd world countries would have 2nd and 3rd rate standards. Pakistan, India, Isreal...etc. USA? With our puppet media who knows... But there is hope for the stoners in Hanford...

Hemp "Eats" Chernobyl Waste, Offers Hope For Hanford by Elaine Charkowski
Central Oregon Green Pages Winter 1998-99

An explosion at a nuclear reactor on April 26th, 1986 in Chernobyl, Ukraine created the world's worst nuclear disaster - so far.

The blast heavily contaminated agricultural lands in a 30 km radius around the reactor. The few people still living there must monitor their food and water for radiation. However the combination of a new technology (phytoremediation) and an old crop (industrial hemp) may offer the Ukraine a way to decontaminate it's radioactive soil.

In 1998, Consolidated Growers and Processors (CGP), PHYTOTECH, and the Ukraine's Institute of Bast Crops began what may be one of the most important projects in history - the planting of industrial hemp for the removal of contaminants in the soil near Chernobyl.

CGP is an ecologically-minded multinational corporation which finances the growing and processing of sustainable industrial crops such as flax, kenaf, and industrial hemp. CGP operates in North America, Europe and the Ukraine.
continued...chernoby l/waste

PHYTOTECH (see new webpage:
PhytoTechnology Laboratories) specializes in phytoremediation, the general term for using phyto (plants) to remediate (clean up) polluted sites. Phytoremediation can be used to remove radioactive elements from soil and water at former weapons producing facilaties. It can also be used to clean up metals, pesticides, solvents, explosives, crude oil, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and toxins leaching from landfills.

Phytoremediation: Using Plants to Clean Soil
February, 2000: Chernobyl (Ukraine)

In 1998, Phytotech, along with Consolidated Growers and Processors (CGP) and the Ukraine's Institute of Bast Crops, planted industrial hemp, Cannabis sp., for the purpose of removing contaminants near the Chernobyl site. Cannabis is in the Cannabidaceae family and is valuable for its fiber, which is used in ropes and other products. This industrial variety of hemp, incidentally, has only trace amounts of THC, the chemical that produces the "high" in a plant of the same genus commonly known as marijuana.



Chernobyl may seem distant, but the EPA estimates that there are more than 30,000 sites requiring hazardous waste treatment throughout the U.S. including Hanford and Three Mile Island.

Phytoremediation with industrial hemp could be used at many of these sites. Unfortunantly, the U.S. government refuses to legalize the cultivation of industrial hemp and clings to the obsolete myth that it is a drug.
Richard Cowan MarijuanaNews.Com

See

CBS Eye On America
Let’s Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey
Make a Fool Of Himself About Hemp Cultivation

and

A Wry Look At the Louisville Forum On Hemp
"The DEA argument was the party line."



Hemp

The ban on industrial hemp is a significant example of the social, environmental, and economic cost of the War on Drugs.

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So Why Are American Farmers Being Left Out?
To download a PDF copy of this article click here.

American farmers are prohibited by law from growing a low-input, sustainable crop common in Europe and Canada with tremendous economic potential: industrial hemp.

Hemp cannot be commercially grown in the United States because it is erroneously confounded with marijuana. In fact, industrial hemp and marijuana are different breeds of Cannabis sativa, just as Chihuahuas and St. Bernards are different breeds of Canis familiaris. Smoking large amounts of hemp flowers can produce a headache but not a high, or as Ruth Shamai of Ruth's Hemp Foods says, "I've personally stood in a burning field of hemp, and if you wanted a buzz you'd have to drink a beer."



The Stoners Will Survive...

Among its many properties cannabis provides considerable protection from a number of lethal nerve gas symptoms by defending the brain from injury and suppressing the the seizures, nausea and vomiting associated with chemical warfare agents.

Marijuana Substitute Combats Nerve Gas by Julian Borger
June 05, 1998 - Scripps Howard News Service
The best available protection against nerve gas attack comes from an Israeli-made synthetic equivalent of marijuana, U.S. military experiments have shown.

Marijuana protects your brain
by Dana Larsen (01 Jan, 1999)
Studies reveal that marijuana protects against brain damage from stroke, heart attacks, and nerve gas.

Cover-Ups, Prevarications, Subversions & Sabotage

Many Veterans are the Enemy of the Bush D.E.A.th War



Marijuana and the new world order
by Dana Larsen (25 Jan, 2002)

In these trying times some worry about radiation exposure, perhaps from a nuclear weapon or terrorist attack against a nuclear power plant. Exposure to high levels of radiation causes symptoms including nausea and cancerous tumours. Cannabis' effect on reducing severe nausea is well-known – lesser known is the ability of cannabinoids to destroy cancerous tumours.

In 1974, the US National Institute of Health commissioned researchers at the Medical College of Virginia to find evidence that marijuana harms the immune system. Instead they found that THC slowed the growth of lung and breast cancers, and of a virus-induced leukemia. Their results were hushed up by the US government, and no further research was allowed. However, the March 2000 issue of Nature Medicine contained a study from researchers in Madrid, who had destroyed previously incurable brain cancer tumors in rats by injecting them with THC (CC#25, THC destroys brain cancers).

The healing powers of cannabis are not limited to humans – this miraculous plant also has the potential to help clean the earth from toxins. Fields of cannabis are being grown in radioactive soil around Chernobyl by the Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, in partnership with a US company called Phytotech (CC#18, Hemp helps Chernobyl).

Phytotech specializes in using plants to clean up polluted sites, a process called phytoremediation. Cannabis is excellent at breaking down organic pollutants and removing metal and radioactive contaminant's from the soil. Phytotech representatives have said that "hemp is proving to be one of the best phyto-remediative plants we have been able to find." Overgrow the government