Yes, let's grow toxic cannabis in urban areas. What could possibly go wrong?

On the plus side, they may find out there is a ready supply of volunteer cultivators, some of whom have their own electrified concertina wire to, uh, guard against interference with the, uh, experiment.

Phytoremediation has already been used for toxic sites in places like Japan and Russia. Sunflowers can also be used for this.

The plants that seem to work the best for this have long, hollow stalks. I've never grown cannabis, but I've grown lots of sunflowers.

The hemp is not, then, consumed or used for other purposes.

The sites will, no doubt, be labeled - these are pre-existing industrial sites, and not disturbing the soil does the least to release toxins - but the plant only pulls out toxins down to the level of root growth.

Is that people sometimes get strange ideas. Yes, if you out up a sign saying "Hemp Phytoremediation Pilot Project #17", it's a sure bet that some curious misinformed persons are going to want to have a look at this hemp.

as I saw online when searching for info about this ...but as if this is something so... weird!!!!! hemp is healthy for the earth! weird. it's cannabis! LOL.

But surely only an idiot would think hemp, with so little THC it cannot be considered psychotropic, would be something to use to get high.

Of course, there are idiots in this world, but we cannot engineer an idiot-proof world...

I would hope they would have TOXIC SITE signs posted very visibly. After that... well, again, there are idiots in this world... if they want to poison themselves with heavy metals, after warnings... that sounds like a future Darwin Award Winner.

Ah, then thank his noodley appendage for the absence of idiots among us.

Betting on stupid is almost always a winner.

Well, that explains my life, since I assume people are capable and sincere in what they say and do.

Which brings me back to your quote... do my assumptions mean someone should bet on me? hmmmm.

It's like a riddle wrapped in an enigma of paradox.

There are a lot of people. Every day is somebody's worst day.

Let me ask you this:

Have you already made the worst decision in your life, or do you think you haven't made it yet?

And if you haven't made it yet, then is there a way to avoid making it?

Or, to put it another way, if you have a group of 365 people and up, then the odds improve that every day, one of them is going to do the dumbest thing they'll do all year!

Heartening news indeed.
Happy to rec for others to see.

for a hemp industry in the U.S. and for an end to DEA overreach.

Thanks for the rec!

I'd say better late than never but seriously why did this take so long?

If you hear what the politicians opposed have to say - they're spouting the same nonsense, with different language, that Hearst and Anslinger used during their propaganda campaign to get cannabis products prohibited in the first place.

It took so long for the same reason that the U.S. is the only western democracy without universal healthcare - because of the power of the right wing in the U.S., including a press that is part of this right wing and coddles and pretends their arguments are equally valid.

It took so long because the U.S. relies upon fear rather than common sense to create policy, over and over again.

And, ultimately, it took so long because the initial law was grounded in racism and the current law allows racist targeting of minority groups to continue.

That's great because I'm running on a green job platform and this is good news.

would you mind posting this as an OP in the drug policy forum? thanks!!