>On the potential for a profitable hemp sector, the Sinn Féin TD was critical of a Government “anomaly” where the hemp stem can be used for “building materials and things like that” but they cannot use the “head of the crop”.
>”Under Irish law at the moment, in contravention to European law, Irish farmers can’t actually allow that to be used to process the type of medicinal products and others that there is a very real market for. “So, if we want to look at areas like hemp, then we need to ensure that we’re actually allowing farmers to get the full volume of any crop that they’re growing,” he said.
Up the farmers, getting weed legalised so we can use the full volume of the crop.
It’s a super crop u can do hundreds of different things with it and will grow in poor quality soil
in all honesty I can’t believe it’s even a debate that weed is still illegal. I hardly ever smoked it myself outside of my teens but I’d sooner be in a crowd of people stoned than drunk. It’s not healthy for the user but it definitely has less societal damage than alcohol.
The amount of tax they could be making off making weed legal is astounding. I read a couple months ago Colorado made 4.4 Billion dollars on selling legal marijuana in 2021 alone. Imagine all the housing we could provide off weed tax alone.
There have been trials of hemp grown for years in Ireland
It makes too much sense.
One of the reasons Hemp was made illegal for cultivation in Ireland and Britain was because it produced a superior fabric to cotton. Trade from the US colonies would of been massively undermined and they couldn’t have that. The amount of THC present in hemp grown in fields in this country is minimal. The fear of stoned, drug dealing farmers is a non sense point it should be cultivated en masse here again
Chasing the drug addict votes I see.
Sinn Feinn once again coming out to say “we support cool thing” but will never get the chance to act on it
It’s easy to promise the world when you don’t have to deliver
CIA up our hole..? Funding their Filthy War..
Took them long enough to figure that one out
Fs they’d be in favour of legalising crack if it lulled people into voting for them.
Can anyone tell me why SF don’t back legalising? It seems like it would be right up their alley
flax is pretty good too
A shocking number of people don’t realise the difference between hemp and weed it appears.
This was in the manifesto for government put together for the current government, and was also a big deal for the greens. Shame they completely did nothing with it and they’ll still complain it’s a mad shinner idea now.
A saw a field of hemp in Wexford years ago. All male plants planted really close together so they were stretching up and not bushing out.
Cannabis should be legalised. People will smoke it regardless so it’s all wasted revenue.
They probably have the talent and the know how
It’s so fucking dumb. These plants are grown and enything that contains thc, the bud and leaves which is 90% of the value is discarded and the trunks are kept… Backwards
Can we just skip to cannabis farming tf ? when will grown adults who can smoke cancer sticks and drink themself retarded be allowed to enjoy taxed , medically safe cannabis ? fuck me sick of the backwards notions of the old foogies calling the shots.
Hemp is a great start , but cut the bullshit and just go for it. Its inevitable anyway , legalisation is coming , lets hurry it along.
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>On the potential for a profitable hemp sector, the Sinn Féin TD was critical of a Government “anomaly” where the hemp stem can be used for “building materials and things like that” but they cannot use the “head of the crop”.
>”Under Irish law at the moment, in contravention to European law, Irish farmers can’t actually allow that to be used to process the type of medicinal products and others that there is a very real market for. “So, if we want to look at areas like hemp, then we need to ensure that we’re actually allowing farmers to get the full volume of any crop that they’re growing,” he said.
Up the farmers, getting weed legalised so we can use the full volume of the crop.
It’s a super crop u can do hundreds of different things with it and will grow in poor quality soil
in all honesty I can’t believe it’s even a debate that weed is still illegal. I hardly ever smoked it myself outside of my teens but I’d sooner be in a crowd of people stoned than drunk. It’s not healthy for the user but it definitely has less societal damage than alcohol.
The amount of tax they could be making off making weed legal is astounding. I read a couple months ago Colorado made 4.4 Billion dollars on selling legal marijuana in 2021 alone. Imagine all the housing we could provide off weed tax alone.
There have been trials of hemp grown for years in Ireland
It makes too much sense.
One of the reasons Hemp was made illegal for cultivation in Ireland and Britain was because it produced a superior fabric to cotton. Trade from the US colonies would of been massively undermined and they couldn’t have that. The amount of THC present in hemp grown in fields in this country is minimal. The fear of stoned, drug dealing farmers is a non sense point it should be cultivated en masse here again
Chasing the drug addict votes I see.
Sinn Feinn once again coming out to say “we support cool thing” but will never get the chance to act on it
It’s easy to promise the world when you don’t have to deliver
CIA up our hole..? Funding their Filthy War..
Took them long enough to figure that one out
Fs they’d be in favour of legalising crack if it lulled people into voting for them.
Can anyone tell me why SF don’t back legalising? It seems like it would be right up their alley
flax is pretty good too
A shocking number of people don’t realise the difference between hemp and weed it appears.
This was in the manifesto for government put together for the current government, and was also a big deal for the greens. Shame they completely did nothing with it and they’ll still complain it’s a mad shinner idea now.
A saw a field of hemp in Wexford years ago. All male plants planted really close together so they were stretching up and not bushing out.
This is what a hemp farm looks like
[https://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/2021/06/29/Bloomington/1a325902067b0c7fd3192ba412bb16a7.jpg?width=1200&disable=upscale&format=pjpg&auto=webp](https://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/2021/06/29/Bloomington/1a325902067b0c7fd3192ba412bb16a7.jpg?width=1200&disable=upscale&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
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And this is what a weed farm looks like
[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/southpark/images/5/5f/Tegridy_Farms_Clean.png/revision/latest?cb=20181222070921](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/southpark/images/5/5f/Tegridy_Farms_Clean.png/revision/latest?cb=20181222070921)
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Cannabis should be legalised. People will smoke it regardless so it’s all wasted revenue.
They probably have the talent and the know how
It’s so fucking dumb. These plants are grown and enything that contains thc, the bud and leaves which is 90% of the value is discarded and the trunks are kept… Backwards
Can we just skip to cannabis farming tf ? when will grown adults who can smoke cancer sticks and drink themself retarded be allowed to enjoy taxed , medically safe cannabis ? fuck me sick of the backwards notions of the old foogies calling the shots.
Hemp is a great start , but cut the bullshit and just go for it. Its inevitable anyway , legalisation is coming , lets hurry it along.