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[redwallzyl]

I don't know if I've rambled on in here before, but with[1] multiple[2] studies[3] utilizing carboxylic acid to make graphene oxide out of graphite, and the impasse that humanity has somehow reached with an insatiable thirst for graphene coupled with an apparent lack of ability to mass-produce it, I will reiterate the obvious.

Cannabinoids are 2-carboxylic acids. If you mix carboxylic acid with graphite, you get graphene. Hemp is amazingly cheap to grow as well as advantageous seeing as cannabis improves soil quality. You mix cannabis/hemp with graphite (don't even need to process the cannabinoids out of the plant material, seeing as hemp nanosheets are on par if not better than graphene) and you have a graphene mixture that's roughly better than anything that's been made in a lab.

TL;DR The War on Drugs is dum

that's cool. also their is a difference between hemp and cannabis them being closely related plants but only one having the drug stuff the other being the one used in rope and such. common misconception. so presumably they would just use the normal non drug plant hemp for whatever chemical they want so its not exactly a good point to make.

[Putnam]

WHAT WHY

[O.Wilde]

Because, as I understand it, it still contains THC. It's like nutmeg, if you consume enough you well EVENTUALLY get high, it's just basically impossible to do in any practical way.

[Bauglir]

i guess a crafty chemist may have the tools and technique to separate it out and concentrate it?

[O.Wilde]

Yeah but like... we're back to practicality. It's gonna be illegal to extract the THC anyway, so why not just grow weed and extract from there rather than waste ACRES of hemp?

[Descan]

i guess a crafty chemist may have the tools and technique to separate it out and concentrate it?

and one might have the tools and technique to seperate out gold/uranium/yomama from seawater

doesn't make it more economic than just going into the land and digging it out

though it does have the difference that both sea-mining and land-mining are legal

[Putnam]

WHAT WHY

Have you ever wondered why they show commercials on TV specifically for cotton, not as a brand but as a fiber?

they what???

i don't watch tv

[TheBiggerFish]

Yeah, those things...

[martinuzz]

also their is a difference between hemp and cannabis them being closely related plants but only one having the drug stuff the other being the one used in rope and such. common misconception. so presumably they would just use the normal non drug plant hemp for whatever chemical they want so its not exactly a good point to make.

That's not true. Both weed and hemp fibre come from the same plant species, cannabis. Sure, there's races of cannabis that have been bred purposedly to produce more active substance, and there's races that have been bred to grow as tall as possible, with as little active substance possible, but it's still the same plant, kinda just like a yorkshire terrier and an argentine mastiff are both dogs.

[Reelya]

That's correct.

Remember the cannabis ban only dates to the 1930's. Without the ban, it wouldn't make any economic sense to grow two different plants. Anyone growing the plant for drugs has all this plant fiber they don't want, that's perfectly usable for ropes/cloth etc. Someone growing it for the drug but who also sold the fibrous part for cloth would have a strong market advantage over people who threw away the fibrous part.

And if you were growing it for the fiber-only, it would be pretty silly to grow the non-drug version, because the choice was between growing a plant with valuable flowers and a plant with worthless flowers, both of which produce the same usable amount of fiber. People growing the inferior version would be pushed out of the market.

[Osmosis Jones]

both of which produce the same usable amount of fiber.

I rather doubt that'd be the case. Breeding a plant for its buds will almost certainly cost it in other ways (as reproductive apparatus ain't cheap, metabolically; similar reason to why we use different cattle breeds for beef and milk), so you'd probably see decreased yields relative to a specialised producer. Similar story in reverse.

[scrdest]

both of which produce the same usable amount of fiber.

I rather doubt that'd be the case. Breeding a plant for its buds will almost certainly cost it in other ways (as reproductive apparatus ain't cheap, metabolically; similar reason to why we use different cattle breeds for beef and milk), so you'd probably see decreased yields relative to a specialised producer. Similar story in reverse.

Yeah, that's what I've been thinking too.

[Scoops Novel]

Gravitational waves motherfucker!

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[RedKing]

Antigravity tech when?

[Scoops Novel]

Inb4 big bang is observed