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Canadian Cannabis Car
sykobabul writes "The CBC is reporting: 'An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a group of Canadian companies in collaboration with an Alberta Crown corporation. The Kestrel will be prototyped and tested later in August by Calgary-based Motive Industries Inc., a vehicle development firm focused on advanced materials and technologies, the company announced.' Leave it to us Canadians to come up with all sorts of uses for cannabis."
It comes as standard equipment.
Honestly, given modern materials like carbon fibre which is lightweight and stronger than steel, you would have to be smoking dope or trying hard to justify growing it to come up with such a stupid idea. I think the East Germans came up with an old fashion linoleum-like (crappy fibre impregnated with resin) car called the Trabant. Given the safety advantages of modern materials you would have to be smoking dope to get in something like this.
Honestly, the dope smoking losers in Canada keep trying to find ways to justify growing more of the stuff to try somehow to justify growing more of the variety for smoking (hey man it's natural, lighten up dude it has to be good). The plants don't look much different to the untrained or from the air. Yeah I'm a reformed dope smoker who now knows based on the difference between then (18+ years ago) and now that the stuff is not as benign as those who are always stoned seem to think. Go smoke a joint and do something. Yeah right... pass the cheetos.
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Yes, the entire planet is part of an evil plot to replace hemp with nylon. Countries which can't even agree on the color of the sky have all magically agreed to artificially make hemp obsolete.
No, seriously .... are you retarded?