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It's both.

No. No it is not. It has certain chemicals which react interestingly with your brain.

I'm pretty sure all animals have cannabinoid receptors, I know my fish does, works as a medicine on him too.  I agree, there's a few other chemicals that probably played a role in that, as well.

I never believed in god until altering my conscience (over time).

Perhaps I was thinking hemp ethanol.  I don't know for sure how flowers would affect it, but what someone said, about it increasing the amount of energy, makes sense.  Getting high is a transfer of energy from the plant, after all.

Biodiesel is made from oil.

Triglycerides + alcohol (+catalyst) --> fatty acid ester (biodiesel) + glycerol (+catalyst)

alcohol is usually methanol but could be ethanol.
catalyst can be NaOH or KOH, but more advanced catalysts might work better. Calcium hydroxide or calcium ethoxide or even some solid acids are being researched. Solid catalysts make the separation easier.

There is also a guy out there trying to sell a variant of this process:

Tryglyceride + 2 ethyl acetate --> 2 fatty acid ester + fatty acid glycerol diacetate

Which is a monophasic mixture, thus gives no waste product (glycerol in the usual synthesis). This mix has lower energy content than traditional biodiesel, so the easier production has a tradeoff, which is why it has not been adopted.


To bring this back on topic, you need the seeds to make biodiesel, but you do not get seeds if you harvest flowers.

It'd be interesting to see how much energy you can turn out with a couple good plants, I'm sure it couldn't power the facility but I wouldn't be surprised the slightest if it outperforms solar energy.

You should add mycelium to the study.

I don't mean hemp seed oil, I mean use the whole plant to make cannabis biodeisel.  I've read hemp is good for biodeisel but fully flowered plants will give you more energy.  It'd be cool if you could grow some weed for fuel and use it in generators, sorta like a perpetual energy machine.  Would have to look at the numbers.

Have you considered using some of your cannabis for biodiesel hemp fuel?  You'll get more energy out of it if you use nicely grown flowers rather than hemp.

LED's are capable of growing quality cannabis, you need a few different spectrums, but they aren't really capable of growing large amounts.  Specially for the price.

I would think LED lights would have a different spectrum which might not match up with the optimal for plants. Maybe you could engineer an LED light to the absorption wavelength of chlorophyl? You would essentially have the most efficient grow light!

This could be really risky/profitable.  I'm going to do some homework this weekend.

A large, well built greenhouse with a properly designed and installed subterranean heating and cooling system would negate nearly all of your concerns and is done every day in many parts of the world in all seasons.

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If you did some experimentation, you might find that the fish more than make up for themselves in fertilizer, soil ammendment, and material costs, and also possibly labor due to not having to move huge volumes of soil around. It takes lots of guys to fill up pots and mix large quantities of soil, transplant plants, etc. An aquaponics operation simplifies a lot of this in the same way hydroponics can.

I wouldn't rule it out.

Nor would I rule out fish as a secondary market, especially in the land-locked / semi-desert areas of Southern Colorado (and neighboring states).


You will need a plan to recycle your soil properly.


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Interesting idea, since GLBSE is a no go, what is next for smaller investors? What kind of returns are you targeting? How do you seek to achieve this? Need numbers, dates, timelines for many in the bitcoin community to consider it for large investments. I don;t see what you've got to loose by being transparent with your business plan- and such an effort would give alot of credibility to the cause.

Quite possibly.

Of course. But that defeats the purpose and people would just claim you are running a ponzi with no business model because you cant state at all what the bond is for and thus would get very few investors imo.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/assets-otc-contract-management-system-105437  is a better way to manage it.

I know what you mean, I still think it's a bad idea(not specifying what funds are being used for leaves the asset open to abuse).

Really the best thing to do is have someone who is in Colorado (and therefor under state protection) do the borrowing and lending(set up a site in Colorado), anyone else is going to become a target for the feds, and if they're on GLBSE then will make that a target too.

Much better title, thanks for changing it.


Could one person offer bonds and hint hint nudge nudge wink wink, invest the procedes into a "high return business" thus bypassing the restrictions, or by asking this question am I ruling that possibility out for everybody?

Hey Viceroy, everyone.

I think this is a really cool project which I'd like to see go ahead.

So after spending some time doing research and thinking about this I certainly don't think that this (as it is) is something that GLBSE could host as a project, it would be unfairly putting all assets listed on GLBSE at risk.

As Viceroy has said, this is being legalised in Colorado which lets face it, is awesome. The problem comes from the federal government and federal agencies.

If GLBSE was a Colorado registered business then there wouldn't be any problem with this, but since we're registering in the UK very soon this is not the case. A company registered and operating in Colorado would have the protection of the state as long as it follows state rules.

Something like GLBSE, which operates from outside the US would get swatted down by the FBI (and several other federal agencies, ICE maybe?) so fast, and I'd end up being extradited to Washington to be prosecuted as a drug lord (ok not this bad but you get the idea).

The level of risk/reward for this project seems to be sufficiently high that it would merit it's own website, OK it wouldn't be a market that would allow investors to move out if they wanted to but could allow the management of many small investors for the long term.

I would recommend having one person from the project sell bonds, i.e. make a very large personal loan with many many smaller investors, and then as the single person invest the funds. You don't need a market to do this.

Thinking about it some more, we wouldn't even be able to allow pass through bonds, due to the danger of being taken down as a source of funding for federally illegal drugs production.

Nefario.

I agree the title is crap, and should be more descriptive.

Bitcoins provides the perfect solution to the problem these people are facing. I would also say that now everybody knows they will have large amounts of cash on hand, so they will continue to be targets for theft, as well as anybody going in/out who must be carrying cash as well. Switching to bitcoins would reduce that risk.