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struggle4progress

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1. The article's really chock-full of bull-shizz:

Reply to Bennyboy (Original post)

Sat Nov 30, 2013, 10:44 PM

Nov 2013

... This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a hemp car making noise, did you know that Henry Ford spent more than a decade researching and building his Model T car? This was in the 1940′s, it was completely made from hemp. This car was 10 times stronger than steel and was also designed to run off of hemp bio-fuel! ...

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Hemp Hemp Hooray! Car made ENTIRELY of hemp [View all] Bennyboy Nov 2013 OP

The article's really chock-full of bull-shizz: struggle4progress Nov 2013 #1

Yup! Model T built in the 1940's!!!! longship Nov 2013 #4

Instead of "Completely" it should have said "Partially" solarhydrocan Nov 2013 #8

That's good info there Bennyboy Dec 2013 #14

Hold on! This is a religion. If you don't have faith, you'll never understand the magical qualities. freshwest Dec 2013 #10

Didn't they do that in a Cheech and Chong movie? MADem Nov 2013 #2

I don't think they plan to dissolve this one to recover the hemp jmowreader Nov 2013 #7

And yes, this is the first thing I thought of...... socialist_n_TN Dec 2013 #11

I wonder why they made it electric Politicalboi Nov 2013 #3

like the Hempcar in 2001- powered by hemp oil solarhydrocan Nov 2013 #6

completely made from hemp seveneyes Nov 2013 #5

And the engine burning that hemp oil. Not so fast... freshwest Dec 2013 #9

Kestrel? Why not Canabis or Sativa or Splif or ... L0oniX Dec 2013 #12

Oh, not ENTIRELY. MineralMan Dec 2013 #13