People & Psychoactive Plants

Cannabis for managing manmade environmental degradation

Posted In: Conservation

  1. Deforestation for charcoal – replace wood with briquets from cannabis plant
    • pilot projects in Malawi – the irony is that UN Institutions supported deforesting for tobacco cultivation but inhibit the cultivation of cannabis for forest conservation
    • canna-briquettes in Europe
  2. Extraction of toxins from illegal mining compounds
    • Pilot project in Ghana – rehabilitate abandoned mining areas for agriculture by cleaning the soil; cannabis is fast growing and prolific and extracts heavy metals. It grows easily and being hardy needs little input. grown over a time it helps lands dug up for gold and other treasures to be brought back to life.

 

 

 

 

 


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