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Feeding children marijuana seeds sounds like a pretty good idea to me. Firstly, they contain very little THC to get the babies all high and potentially do something funny to their rapidly developing brains. Secondly, seeds otherwise introduce an unforgivable harshness to the dubbie, dude. Why aren’t we giving infants this wonder seed? The answer is simple: because, in America and Old Europe, we aren’t all so starved that we have been reduced to feeding our children the seeds of discarded industrial sources of fabric and paper. In other fine nations struggling with the diminutive size of their buffet tables however, this may be more of an issue.
So, the burning question is, can we actually feed children hemp seed? The answer is of course; unfortunately they’ll die eventually of malnutrition if you don’t feed them something else. It is a very rich source of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids as well as polyunsaturated fats, so they’ll at least go out with gorgeous hair and skin. The protein content is very high, but is it high enough in all essential amino acids? Chuan-He Tang and friends explored that idea in their recent J. Agric. Food Chem article (2006, 54, 8945-8950). The results of their study indicate that feeding infants hemp seed extract as a sole source of food will deprive them of amino acids they may otherwise need to continue to live. Adults, on the other hand, can survive on hemp oils just fine, so long as they have some other source of protein, which they can easily get by eating other people. Apparently hemp seed is a great way to get all those good fats starving people need, but the protein in them doesn’t dissolve well and thus may not be biologically accessible. It nevertheless contains everything an adult needs with the exception of tryptophan and a few vitamins and minerals.
Modification of the Hemp plant to produce seeds with greater protein solubility and increased lysine would be a good first step in alleviating malnutrition around the world, though we can do this with soy beans just as easily. The conclusion? Well, if you’ve got the munchies from smoking part of the plant, you can eat the rest and it’ll keep you healthy for a little while.
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Industrial hemp has almost no THC anywhere in the plant. You’d have to smoke a whole ounce of dried Michigan ditchweed (grown large scale for naval stores before nylon rope) to get high.
The primary fear of jackbooted State compassion is those heavily polyunsaturated fatty acids. Omega-6 in particular is essential to human brain development, and Great Apes are deficient in fatty acid desaturases. If every kid’s IQ could be boosted a full standard deviation by proper nutrition from ditchweed seed oil as infants, government in general and Democrats in particular would be crushed by murderously angry mobs. OTOH, you don’t want to gorge on it,
http://www.umm.edu/altmed/Cons.....idscs.html
This can reignite our relationships with mexico! Basically you are saying we need to start smoking lots of schwiggity schwag AKA brick weed – the one with all dem seedes, and denn saving dem seedes. This weed comes from mexico. Delegalize weed, import it from mexico, and feed the scraps to our children.
Can’t we just deillegalize weed and import it from Kentucky and Tennessee, thus making our children smarter AND curing poverty in southern Appalachia? Two birds, one stone so big that God himself can’t lift it. Dude, that’s deep.
I can’t believe you would suggest to create genetically modified weed. Any GM product is evil! The hippies would be so pissed.
I only eat what is GM.
Wait… was there a point to the article?
something about marijuana giving Woodward the idea for the Woodward-Hoffman rules? it would explain a lot
Why don’t the Latin Americans make a lucrative business of extracting the omega fatty acids and then exporting them to other countries? That will also get rid of all the weed. The UN should look into this.
the UN is too busy taking their own stash of pharmecueticals and handing them out to their own members. if you dont believe me, google it. you actually believing the UN is that organized and ready to serve the world, is utterly funny. they are a highly bureaucratic organization that has to have a meeting to just decide to when to have a meeting. there is no such thing as getting rid of all “the weed”. its impossible. it grows everywhere on earth. you can nuke the earth, split it in 2 and then yes, it will have finally then, be eradicated. there is also no need for Latin Americans countries to “extract” Omegas from anything for a supposed lucrative business. NBTY, Inc., the manufacturer of the most amount of vits and herbs in the world makes the highest profit margin on crap like this. they couldnt even BEGIN to compete w/that kind of wholesale/manufacturer. Lastly, you need to read up on what you are wondering about before mouthing off on stuff you know nothing about.
It’s a shame that I like to smoke so weed so much. All you weed haters out there, like just don’t know. That was deep.
French fries fried in Hemp oil? A good excuse to eat fries anyway
I could see that creating a self-destructive feed back loop.
IF “eat fries”
THEN “get munchies”
IF “get munchies”
THEN “eat fries”
et cetera ad mortum
Exactly the sort of nerdieness I would expect from one of the brain children of MC Plus+
Listen, I’ve been thinking… I want to make some Chemistry Hip-Hop with you. What needs to happen to make that a reality? Do I have to shell out some mad scrilla to lay some trax? Or can we hizzy with Jizzy at his parents’ crib in they basement? Email me, yo.
Regarding, soy and ice cream (no reason why not to include marijuana seeds), the University of Illinois has a soybean experiments lab that I talk about here that could be of interest. I link to a recipe on how to make your own soy ice cream.
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You couldn’t eat very many hemp seeds though, they sort of numb your mouth after a while like eating cloves.
I need more info on the numbing side of hemp seeds. I’ve been eating the shelled ones with yogurt for breakfast for a couple of months, and have noticed a curious effect in my mouth, my tongue kind of cleaving to the top of my mouth, and feeling really dry. Is this what hemp seeds do? I’ve just cut back on them to see if there is a change. Is this what you have found too?
this is a really good article BUT, there are a few mistakes. this one really threw me for a second: “Adults, on the other hand, can survive on hemp oils just fine, so long as they have some other source of protein, which they can easily get by EATING OTHER PEOPLE.” wow. i have never thought of turning that far in life to that type of “food” source to get my aminos or protein. however, the author might know something from his own experience obviously he feels is valuable to share.