"Gebt das Hanf frei!"

[matrixmann]

Ein klein wenig merkt man, dass eine Komplettlegalisierung von Hanf der Konsumgüterindustrie sehr in den Kram passen würde.
Selbst begegnet ist einem schon Hanf-Schinken, Hanftee, Hanföl (Speiseöl) - CBD-Produkte noch nicht, aber im Rahmen von "Nahrungsergänzungsmitteln" sollen die auch schon legal im Umlauf sein. Wer weiß, was nicht eventuell noch...
Und das ist erst seit vergleichbar kurzer Zeit der Fall.
Hanfseile in der Schifffahrt oder Hanfschnüre im Klempnerhandwerk (um Gewinde und Verschraubungen abzudichten) sind dagegen regelrecht ein alter Hut...

Also, wenn das nächste Mal eine Diskussion über das Thema losgehen sollte, leider wird es den Beigeschmack nicht los, dass es hierbei weniger um "wir wollen den Leuten etwas gutes tun" (was bestimmte Bestandteile des Hanfs, abseits von THC, durchaus tun) als um potentielles Geschäft geht.

Comments

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Oh really? They found another miracle product that is cheap and "organic. As usual very little research is done and then it is too late but they will just pay some settlements and count profit. Thanks, it is actually interesting. Is it like a new cellulose, that they put pretty much everywhere?

[matrixmann]

No, not like that.

First, you'll have to regard it still under the controversy "Legalize or not legalize hemp?" - which the government still tries to stay the path with in to leave it at a total taboo. Hemp=drug, that's what they want to let it stay with.
In the medication section, they've made small improvements to recognize that cannabis can also work as medicine, but this is still a relatively small section and it's tied to very strict control mechanisms.
How they actually keep it with the other parts of hemp which can't be used to create drugs (see the ropes for ships or cords in plumbing), I don't know at all. (These are products have been made of hemp traditionally, it's not a recent thing.)

In terms of "what people receive gain from" (especially the med section), this is way too slowly because practice shows, when the CBD of the cannabis plants gets used for that purposes, it even works better than established meds. And that WITHOUT causing the well-known intoxication that cannabis is known for otherwise.
So this plant is more than just "a drug to see stars".

On the other hand, it seems a bit perverted to me that, while the state keeps up its strategy to regard hemp solely as a drug, recently a few home-use products using hemp (or parts of it) hit the shelves which weren't there before half a year ago.
And especially if speaking about those products that contain CBD and small remaining traces of THC, this seems like even irresponsible because the short-term and long-term consequences of CBD are still relatively unknown - and, e. g. the tea which contains a small remaining percentage of THC, with that it's "I thought you said that hemp is a drug and there shall be no legal way to get high from THC?".
Say, if you let that enter the markets, then you can also legalize "the real shit".

The products containing CBD should be actually tied to the health care system, so that you can obtain them through it and not pay them yourself. And should there be trouble with it, you can talk to your doctor about it like about every other med that doesn't seem to be the right choice for you. Contributing to the overall studying of CBD, so that, one day, its handling and its consumption can be safe.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

I meant seemingly cheap and accessible. Health effects is an extra concern. They used it in the Soviet Union but for non-edible applications like you described:fiber for clothes and industrial.

[matrixmann]

Cheap and accessbible - oh, I wouldn't bet anything on that in there... In this point, I have no idea about the liabilities.

If speaking about the edible oil, or the tea I've seen, I can tell you it's about in the price class of Styrian pumpkin seed oil. - One of the more expensive ones, but still not the most expensive (well, go try to find anything that beats argan oil in that section... that'll take a bit.)
The tea is also not that cheap, compared to common stuff.
So... well, cheap is definitely something else.
But maybe that is because of the "exotic foods"-bonus currently.
Who knows how that would develop in the long term.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Not for the consumers but for producers. For consumers it is always inflated because of the hype.

[matrixmann]

Even on the producers' side (well, more on the side of the firms which import it, let's be exactly) I'd think it'll remain with a bit higher price for the procurement for some time still - as you cannot breed hemp here thoughtlessly (from the side of the law) like other agricultural plants, and it's a business that can quickly be on the threshold of getting prohibited.
So that means a higher risk to calculate with in general and some people needing to get bribed regularly.

And, of course, for such a service getting done, you can demand some just because of that risk...

Well, we'll see.
As expressed between the lines, I'm skeptic, even if something useful can come around with that.
(Tasted the normal edible oil myself already. Just because they'd once offered some in the Lidl chain stores a bit ago.
Brain just shall get supplied with sensory experiences, that's pretty much it. By the way, diseasewise also nothing speaks against this kind of oil, rather the opposite.)