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irislake Donating Member (967 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 01:39 PM
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An innocent question from a grandmother in Canada.
Are the leaves of a pot plant good for anything?
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 01:40 PM
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1. decoration? They are kinda pretty
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rd_kent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 01:43 PM
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2. EVERY part of that plant is useable.
Some parts more than others, but DONT WASTE ANYTHING!
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frebrd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 01:49 PM
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4. Not even seeds and stems!

:)
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rd_kent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 07:16 PM
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10. ESPECIALLY seeds and stems
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 01:46 PM
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3. Police department revenue generation
And brownie ingredient.
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Mopar151 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 02:02 PM
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5. Cooking, for sure
Look into "solvent extraction" (using butter) of THC, or dry and crush into chili, stew, etc.

Ya know, if you put some into Porky's feed, he might eat more, gain weight faster.....
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irislake Donating Member (967 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 02:21 PM
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6. Thank-you. I figured you Americans having a "socialist" president
Edited on Fri Sep-25-09 02:23 PM by irislake
would be freer to learn the uses of pot.

I live in Harper country (he is our Neocon PM for those who don't know) and he is so far to the right of your former GWB government on drugs that if he didn't have a minority government I think he would bring back the death penalty for mere possession of pot.

I of course do not posses ANY of it. To my knowledge. But I read recently that police in Western Ontario seized more than 23 million dollars worth of pot that criminals had planted "in unsuspecting farmers' fields between the rows of corn". The innocent farmers couldn't see this pot because it could only be detected from the air.

During corn season I asked a friend of mine, who is a farmer, how could these farmers not suspect. She said something so vague that I wondered if I could trust her answer.

I bought corn freshly picked from the fields at roadside stands and wondered how farmers could squeeze between the rows of pot planted between the rows of corn and not grow suspicious. The smell alone would make you wonder. Not that I would know. And didn't they weed the corn when it was growing? Not that I suspect the farmers. But I wonder how my friend knew pot "needs a lot of fertilizer".

I do not have a farm but I live next door to one and have 300 acres. If a crow in a nearby cornfield ate a pot seed by mistake last year. Got high. Flew up and crashed onto my land and pooped and died I could have pot growing on my land too. And not suspect it either.

What if I was walking my dogs and found some? Not that I would know pot from ginsing. It is best to be informed. Just in case I stumble across some in some farmer's field or on my own land.

P.S. Not that I live in Ontario.
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sharp_stick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 02:32 PM
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7. Corn Farmers
Edited on Fri Sep-25-09 02:33 PM by sharp_stick
at least most of them around here never actually see the corn. It's all harvested by combines and nobody actually goes into the field unless it's on the equipment. They don't walk the rows like they used to. This corn goes for animal feed and into the manufacture of corn syrup because none of us can actually taste real sugar anymore but EVERYTHING must be filled with corn syrup.

Except for the guy planting pot between the rows. He would plant it early and then harvest as much as possible before Farmer John fires up the combine to harvest his field. Not that I would actually know anything about the planting or harvesting of any form of narcotic plant though.
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irislake Donating Member (967 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 03:10 PM
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8. Around here
the corn is picked fresh every morning for the roadside stalls and the local supermarkets. So maybe in Western Ontario it's a different scene. Not that I am located in Eastern Ontario or anywhere in Ontario.
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TexasProgresive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 03:59 PM
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9. irislake
You are priceless. (not that I think you're funny):loveya:
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