If one looks into cannabis with an open mind and evaluates all the history and uses of this plant, one might come to see it as I do... the single most valuable plant on earth. But I gave up trying to "green" pill people about it. So many are still caught up in the Hearst driven narratives of the early prohibitionist days of our collective pasts. I suspect the reason for it seeming to clean up radioactive soils is that it grows a really deep and extensive roots structure that would collect much of the energies being pushed by the radioactive elements doing the contaminating. Hemp was once by decree and laws passed in the colonies REQUIRED to be sowed into your lands someplace.
In case you are interested "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" is a great read by 'Nam era Marine Vet Jack E. Herer that gives as much truth as I have found in any book written by a human. 10,000 years of use by humans around the world in all its forms to be suddenly and unjustly villanized by a few powerful rich men looking to make themselves more powerful and wealthy at the expense of all of us. Seriously, if you think you can debunk anything in the book I believe there is still a bounty offered to this day of $50,000 to prove an error in the original publication. To my knowledge no one has collected on that offer. When it was offered in the 70's one could have bought a nice homestead for that kind of cash. Now it would by far less but still a nice lump of silver to pocket.
Adding to your comment and expanding a little. Our answers are in front of us.
Heavy metals and toxic chemicals accumulating in our environment is an ever persisting and serious issue. These toxins end up in our food chain (such as heavy metals, PCBs, and dioxins) and bioaccumulate, which is the “gradual accumulation of a certain chemical into the living tissue of an organism from its environment [and] may result from direct absorption from the environment or from ingestion of food particles” (Institute, 2020). Fungal mycelia can remove these toxins in the soil before they are able to enter our food supply and ultimately us.
I can add to that conversation as well. A good friend of mine is in the environmental remediation business. He's currently deploying a waste water treatment plant that have biodigesters that do just that, remove toxic substances from the waste stream. Between that as well as ozone, there are a lot of technologies that are available to remediate. It's cool stuff.
I do like the basic approach on planting hemp. It has some many things that you can do with this.. truly a miracle plant.
If one looks into cannabis with an open mind and evaluates all the history and uses of this plant, one might come to see it as I do... the single most valuable plant on earth. But I gave up trying to "green" pill people about it. So many are still caught up in the Hearst driven narratives of the early prohibitionist days of our collective pasts. I suspect the reason for it seeming to clean up radioactive soils is that it grows a really deep and extensive roots structure that would collect much of the energies being pushed by the radioactive elements doing the contaminating. Hemp was once by decree and laws passed in the colonies REQUIRED to be sowed into your lands someplace.
In case you are interested "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" is a great read by 'Nam era Marine Vet Jack E. Herer that gives as much truth as I have found in any book written by a human. 10,000 years of use by humans around the world in all its forms to be suddenly and unjustly villanized by a few powerful rich men looking to make themselves more powerful and wealthy at the expense of all of us. Seriously, if you think you can debunk anything in the book I believe there is still a bounty offered to this day of $50,000 to prove an error in the original publication. To my knowledge no one has collected on that offer. When it was offered in the 70's one could have bought a nice homestead for that kind of cash. Now it would by far less but still a nice lump of silver to pocket.
Adding to your comment and expanding a little. Our answers are in front of us.
Heavy metals and toxic chemicals accumulating in our environment is an ever persisting and serious issue. These toxins end up in our food chain (such as heavy metals, PCBs, and dioxins) and bioaccumulate, which is the “gradual accumulation of a certain chemical into the living tissue of an organism from its environment [and] may result from direct absorption from the environment or from ingestion of food particles” (Institute, 2020). Fungal mycelia can remove these toxins in the soil before they are able to enter our food supply and ultimately us.
https://usfblogs.usfca.edu/sustainability/2022/02/03/mycoremediation-how-fungi-can-repair-our-land/
I can add to that conversation as well. A good friend of mine is in the environmental remediation business. He's currently deploying a waste water treatment plant that have biodigesters that do just that, remove toxic substances from the waste stream. Between that as well as ozone, there are a lot of technologies that are available to remediate. It's cool stuff.
I do like the basic approach on planting hemp. It has some many things that you can do with this.. truly a miracle plant.
I just saw the video of using mushrooms to turn oil soaked straw into wonderful soil. He believes Mycelia can save the planet. Paul Stamets.