Asheville's hippie-less hemp house
A home built using Hemcrete, an inexpensive, hemp-based eco-building material is completed in Asheville, N.C. CNN is on the scene but does not inhale.
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You people do realize that hemp is not the same thing as marijuana, right? There is less than 1% of THC in the composition of actual hemp. You would have to smoke a joint the size of a telephone pole to POSSIBLY get a "buzz." All of your petty, childish comments and snickers involving the stereotypical views of hemp are ridiculous. You are supposed to be educating people on the uses of INDUSTRIAL hemp. Educate yourselves before you report something of this nature. People need to know and.... More
And this is not the only way to build with hemp. You can self-build. Most owner builders need a more cost effective solution at the hemp buildings at http://www.thehempbuilder.com are affordable as well as sustainable. They use the whole hemp stalk which can be grown (legally) on site.
It is so bloody annoying to see ignorant remarks like the headline to this story. I have a sense of humor but re-legitimizing a plant that has been in use for thousands of years (for things like rope, sails, clothing) is hard enough without misleading information like this. The only effect you're going to get from inhaling the smoke of burning hemp is a headache. Industrial hemp has less than .3% THC whereas cannabis has anywhere from 6 to 20% THC. We need hemp for our farmers, for industry,.... More
I have the agree with Steve's sentiments above. Publishers, journalists, and others are doing nothing positive for re-legitimizing a plant (hemp/cannabis sativa), by still referring to terms of the past - that were coined to help the prohibition of "marijuana". Please review the history of words when trying to refer to a plant in a scientific sense.
The creators of this hemp house are Push Design, who can be found online at http://www.pushahead.com. Their focus on healthy buildings as opposed to just being green/eco portends to the way the industry will move going forwards.
