>>8349077

This could be a virus that is basically pretty similar to a normal cold or flu.

It could have nothing to do with 5G and nothing to do "eliminate traitors to humanity".

People seem to be taking sides, either 1) we're all doomed, many deaths to come or 2) this isn't anything really all that different from cold and flu season.

I'm not sure what's going on.

Seems like theres a bunch of randomness surrounding what gets cancelled and what doesn't. Corona seems to be giving government or whoever else an excuse to act all random-like.

>>8349185

I'm in favor of all the legalization of all of it, hemp, marijuana, etc.

However, I expect that hemp requires a lot of labor to process into things like paper.

Comparing, for paper, hemp vs trees, it appears that you can plant a tree, ignore the tree for a long time, let it be, don't spend any money, and then, after like 50 years, you have a lot of big trees, which you then cut down, and get a whole lot of fiber. Trees are perennials.

Hemp, on the other hand, is an annual. You need to have someone there on the ground cutting down the stalks of hemp and dealing with them on a yearly basis. When you're talking paper, I'm guessing it's overall cheaper to cut down 1/50th of the total land mass every year, than to cut down 100% of the land mass every year. Yes, you might get more biomass or fiber if you cut down all the hemp every year and replant every year, but it seems a lot cheaper if you just let trees grow big without doing anything at all to them for 49 out of 50 years.

It seems like marijuana is the better substitute for big pharma stuff than hemp is a substitute for trees, for things that trees are good at.

All should be legal, and Trump really should get on the legalization of marijuana. It would be nice if he could sign something on 4/20.

>>8349341

I'm not talking about which of trees or hemp is easier to make into paper.

I'm talking about the fact that you can let a tree grow for 50 years and you don't have to do anything during that 50 years.

You don't have 50 year old hemp trees. Hemp is an annual. Every year you have to deal with cutting down hemp. Every 50 years, you have to deal with cutting down trees. Or don't, and let the trees keep growing bigger and bigger.

I can make up numbers to illustrate the point.

In Maine, which has a lot of completely unpopulated areas, there are trees growing everywhere. No people, trees. Every so often, the timber industry chops down a small percentage of the trees.

50K acres.

Trees - pay people to cut down 1K acres of trees every year.

Hemp - pay people to cut down 50K acres of hemp every year.

Cost of cutting down trees or hemp - 50 times more for cutting down hemp.

It could be that hemp costs half to process and it could be that you could get twice as much paper per acre from hemp. 4x. But it costs 50 times more to cut down and replant the hemp because it's an annual, and the tree just sits there and grows by itself year after year.

Again, 100% in favor of full legalization of hemp and marijuana.

>>8349487

>Hemp got weed outlawed,

I've heard that many times. It doesn't make sense to me.

A paper firm or a timber company would just use whichever was more profitable. If a plastics firm could do a better job with hemp, they'd use hemp.

Big pharma didn't like marijuana. Can't patent natural stuff. (caveats there, but I'm right). They'd rather get a monopoly on something they invented, and charge whatever they want, because they have a patent, and they're the only ones who can make it. They then bribe doctors to prescribe the patent medicine that they charge whatever they want for.

The timber companies and the paper companies don't have that bribery machine at their disposal.

>>8349544

Why don't Pharmaceutical Companies come up with a MEDICINE that you can take if you get whatever virus is out there?

There are natural foods, or just generally natural things, that work as anti virals. Why doesn't the government tell us what those things are? Why doesn't the government give us those things for free? Why do we have big pharma making vaccines?

It's pretty clear to me that our government gives Zero Shits about the people.

Garlic has anti viral properties. There are people here who can tell you what other things have anti viral properties. I've seen some folks talk about colloidal silver. I can't tell you what's best, but I do know that there are a lot of things that have anti viral properties.

It seems like the government (TRUMP) seems to care a little bit about the people, but more about Big Pharma solutions that will make Big Pharma rich. I'm not suggesting that there has every been a President that has cared more about the people than Big Pharma, not saying that Trump is worse than all the rest, but he's not better.

It seems like our choices are 1) wash your hands 2) quarantine 3) wait for a big pharma vaccine. When the right answer is 4) here is a long list of things that kill viruses. Natural things, cheap things. But the shit in charge of the world doesn't want you to know those things.

There also are interesting health benefits when you drink baking soda, which is alkaline, in water. Viruses and diseases such as colds, flu, cancer and even heart disease thrive in an acidic body, but cannot survive when your body is alkaline.

https://www.leaf.tv/articles/how-to-drink-bicarbonate-of-soda-for-health/

How to Drink Bicarbonate of Soda for Health

>>8349344

>(You)

TREES are renewable and doesn't harm the soil.

Trees AREN'T harvested annually. They, by themselves, without people, grow huge. You get many more tons of biomass from an acre of trees than you get from an acre of hemp, when you measure only the years that you're doing anything with that land.

Do you NOT READ ANYTHING I'M SAYING?

We don't have people to cut down and replant hemp every fucking year. It's massively labor intensive. Trees grow by themselves. And then, 50 years later, you send your people to cut down 1/50th of your trees. You only need 1/50th the people to do the job.

Labor costs are high in the US. And hiring people to chop up a fuckton of biomass is not the solution.

Again, 100% in favor of legalizing marijuana and hemp.

But hemp doesn't beat trees for paper and for a bunch of things that trees are best at.

They grow by themelves, they get bigger and bigger without anybody doing anything. Big economic advantage of trees over hemp.

Again, it was Big Pharma, and not the timber companies that got marijuana outlawed.

If hemp was better, the companies would cut down the trees and grown the hemp. But it isn't.

Marijuana is better than the patented big pharma solutions. Patents make drugs cost more because they have a monopoly and the company who makes them can charge what they want and use the leftover money to bribe politicans and doctors.

>>8349420

>(You)

I can compare 2 sets of laws and tell you which ones I like the most.

I would like almost no laws about it.

I don't think that the word "decriminalization" or the word "legalization" really means any specific laws.

Trump should remove Marijuana from whatever schedule it's on. Is removal of Marijuana from the schedule "decriminalization" or "legalization"? I don't know, but I'd want that to happen. Then, I guess, let each state decide what they want to do.