Be the first to know! Subscribe to our monthly newsletter:

Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 00:42:36

Hemp straws and other products made from plants such as flax may become part of a more sustainable future.

In episode 63 of the Cannabis Department podcast, our host Matt Baum and Exhemplarylife.com distributor Carolyn Virostek talked about biodegradable hemp plastic.

Carolyn talked about the benefits of biodegradable hemp plastic compared to other plastics. Some creators claim that more environmentally friendly plastics will actually break down into microplastics. The conversation covered how disposable plastics (such as hemp straws) and other plants such as hemp and flax can be used for more than just smoothies. Matt also mentioned the Stanford University report on plastic straws at the beginning of the series.

Exhemplary Life was created out of the desire to promote hemp and products made from this native plant. Hemp flowers, seeds and stems can make many products, such as clothes, shoes, and accessories made of hemp fibers, so as to obtain more natural and environmentally friendly products. The oil of this plant can be used in foods and extracts as a great health benefit to our body's endocannabinoid system.

Part of the promotion is to educate people about the needs and health benefits of cannabis products and their eco-friendly sustainability. When educating people about the benefits of cannabis, people will ask us where we can get high-quality cannabis products. Their plan is to provide more products made of hemp as the industry develops new products. As the United States finally legalizes the cultivation and cultivation of cannabis, we will see more and more cannabis products on the market. At first, they focused on providing high-quality clothing, ointments, lotions, extracts, oils and food, adding more products over time.

Send us your marijuana questions, and you may hear the answers to these questions in one of our marijuana questions and answers. Send us your written questions on Twitter, Facebook, matt@ministryofhemp.com, or call us and leave a message at 402-819-6417. Please keep in mind that this phone number is only for cannabis issues, any other inquiries about the Ministry of Cannabis should be sent to info@ministryofhemp.com

Be sure to subscribe to the Cannabis Department podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Podbay, Stitcher, Pocketcasts, Google Play, or your favorite podcast app. If you like what you hear, please leave us a comment or star rating. This is a quick and easy way to help others find Hemp information, please share this episode on your own social media!

If you believe that marijuana can change the world, then please help us spread the word! When you donate any amount on our Patreon page, become the Hemp Insider department!

You will be the first to learn about what is happening through our special newsletter and exclusive sponsor content (including blogs, podcast additional content, etc.). Visit the cannabis department on Patreon now and become an insider!

Below you will find the full record of episode 63 of the Cannabis Department podcast "Cannabis Straws and the Sustainability of Cannabis":

Matt Baum: This is Matt Baum. This is a podcast from the Department of Cannabis, brought to you by Ministryofhemp.com, a leading advocate of hemp and hemp education in the United States. Welcome back to the Cannabis Department podcast. I know we have been talking about hemp plastics on the show, but there is a lot of news about hemp plastics and bioplastics, which is really exciting. Today in the show we will talk about some new fully biodegradable hemp plastics. Replace many single-use plastics currently on the market. But before we start, let's talk about straws first.

Mattbaum: You know that nearly 500 million straws are used every day in the United States. Of these 500 million straws, I would say that nearly 100% are used only once and then thrown away. Now, this plastic enters the ocean and enters our landfills all over the country. And it’s not good for you. Not good for animals. This is bad for the earth. This is not good for anyone.

Matt Baum: Although 500 million straws sounds like a crazy huge number. Indeed, this makes up for less than 1% of plastic pollution, which is crazy. This information comes from an article on stanford.edu, I will provide a link to it in the program description, but it surprised me. The good news now is that states like Washington have banned the use of plastic straws. McDonald’s is moving away from plastic straws. Starbucks did the same thing this year. Look, I don’t think paper straws are the answer because they are bad.

Mattbaum: They just melted. Cutting down trees to make paper straws is not the solution. Now, someone is making a completely biodegradable hemp plastic. Today we started talking about straws. My conversation partner today is Carolyn Virostek. She is a distributor of exhemplarylife.com, which sells all cool cannabis products, including cannabis straws.

Matt Baum: We happened to give away some on our Instagram and at the end of the show. Please stay tuned because I will announce the winner at the end of the show. Super fun. right? I will provide you with a coupon code for a 25% discount on purchases on exhemplarylife.com. So, stay tuned to the end of the show, but first this is my conversation with Caroline about hemp plastic, hemp straws and how we can make more responsible and biodegradable plant-based plastics.

Mattbaum: Caroline, before we start, we will discuss, honestly, I don't even know what to call it. You send me these straws and I looked at them and said, "These look like plastic. They feel like plastic. When I drink with them, my mouth feels like plastic, but it’s not plastic. I’m holding it here. What? What did I drink the other day?"

Carolyn Virostek: They do look like plastic. They feel like this, they are not as long as plastic, this is their purpose, because we don’t want them to last 100-1000 years, our environment and our animals don’t need that. They are made from hemp biomass based on hemp The product. Then, we have two other products. We did not actually disclose that it is proprietary, but neither is PLA. If many plastics try to be compostable or biodegradable, they will eventually use this material.

Carolyn Virostek: Especially in the hemp industry, or really in a lot of plastic industries, they are trying to find alternatives to fossil fuel plastics. They use PLA, sometimes PHA, but PLA is the largest. I don’t want to sound like I’m negative about PLA. They are great because they are plant-based, but they still have their own problems in how they break down. They How to compost and decompose in the right environment.

Mattbaum: Of course. So, really fast, I can ask you, what is PLA? I don't know, or PLH? There is no clue.

Carolyn Virostek: It is an organic-based polylactic acid used as an adhesive that we call plastic. Plastic is actually a really basic term, referring to anything that is malleable, we can use it in different products, and it will remain the same under different circumstances. We have hard plastics, soft plastics, etc., but PLA will be an organic compound used as a binder.

Matt Baum: Is it the same as PLH?

Carolyn Virostek: Yes. Many times it is made from corn starch and sugar cane, and now they are even starting to use other products, even coconut husks. Therefore, PLA can be made from many different products.

Matt Baum: But in these PLA products, they still contain plastic. Are they still petroleum-based plastics that contain these?

Carolyn Virostek: No. This is the difference. PLA has no petroleum base. Using PLA is an advantage because we are not using petroleum-based, because this is a completely different animal. This is what we are trying to get rid of, because petroleum-based production requires more energy, which is actually extracted, refined and then produced from the earth.

Carolyn Virostek: This in itself is toxic to the environment and the actual product. After you use that product, what will you use it for? After drinking the water bottle you just drank for an hour, what do you plan to use it for? What will happen to it? Or you throw it in the trash can, and it's there for 1000 years.

Matt Baum: Yes. Aliens, found it after the human society disappeared from the earth, and said: "Well, I want to know what they did to this garbage."

Carolyn Virostek: Yes. Why do they do this? What is this for? It really makes you think, "Well, do we really need all these plastics all the time? How long will it exist in our environment?" We found that this is not good, we found a lot on islands where humans don’t even inhabit. Part of it, but these plastics are washing up on the coast.

Matt Baum: Yes. It's like plastic rafts gathered in the middle of the ocean. It's crazy, it's absolutely crazy.

Carolyn Virostek: Yes. We just continue to make more and more plastics because the oil industry has invested a lot of money in it, and they want to continue producing.

Mattbaum: It's also very cheap. Then why not?

Carolyn Virostek: According to them, it's very cheap. Now this brings me to another conversation. We can say, "Yes, it's cheap, and plastic is cheap." This is the comparison between our straws, that is, our straws are more expensive than plastic. This is one of the questions people have about it. And my comment, "You can pay now or you can pay later."

Carolyn Virostek: Because when you use oil-based plastics, first of all, you really need to pay for it. Because you are extracting limited materials from the earth. We can't do more. As for hemp, we can grow it every few months, and every few months we have a brand new crop.

Carolyn Virostek: It is also very good for the environment. Our cultivation of hemp does not cause more toxicity, and oil, even processed and refined, will produce toxicity and discharge toxic waste into the environment. Therefore, we really want to consider environmental costs, just to bring them to the market. Then, when we have products such as plastic products, bottles or marijuana straws, we will find them in rivers, streams, or wherever we are.

Mattbaum: Or even in the belly of a dead animal.

Carolyn Virostek: Yes, in the ocean, and then we are losing animals because they are eating it. It returns to the place where we found the material, and we have to get it. You must bring it in from garbage and pollution. Then we must find a way to deal with it. Process it into new materials to make new things.

Carolyn Virostek: If we do this, many countries will still burn all plastic. Therefore, we increase the toxic waste in the environment by burning. But for them, it is much easier to burn it than to actually process it into something new.

Matt Baum: It's cheap, right?

Carolyn Virostek: That's what they said, it's very cheap.

Mattbaum: You can put on these blindfolds and say, "Well, yes, but it's cheaper and it can do the job. When it is thrown away, I don't have to think about it." But it's not the case. Like you said, we are extracting oil from the earth. Then we are doing something toxic to the environment to make this plastic straw. You use it once, you really use it once, and then you throw it away. Then the earth paid the price for 1,000 years.

Matt Baum: We know that we are trying to get rid of this situation. PLH is a better step, but it is not as good as the one used in these cannabis straws. Now, what is the difference? When you say PLH, it's basically not exactly the same. Before we dive into the ingredients in the cannabis straw, it is not very durable or more durable. What's wrong with PLA?

Carolyn Virostek: The problem is that even some chemists are still debating what it is. As for PLA, is it biodegradable or just degradable?

Mattbaum: So we don't even know?

Caroline: There is an argument, you can find a scientist. "Well, no, it is definitely biodegradable." Another person will say, "It will break, but it cannot be truly biodegradable." If we even look at it, if I can suggest biodegradable vs. compostable If something is considered to be compostable, then it is also biodegradable, but something that is biodegradable is not compostable.

Matt Baum: Yes. Not all biodegradable things are compostable, but all compostable things are biodegradable?

Carolyn Virostek: Yes. For PLA, they did debate it. We can say that it will indeed be downgraded, but it just takes longer. So PLA is biodegradable, as short as 4 years as I have seen, but about 80 years on average. Again, it will decompose and there is no toxic residue from the decomposition of oil-based plastics, but it will still cost the environment because these PLAs are used as plastics. Become a microplastic."

Carolyn Virostek: These microplastics are what we find in billions of oceans and creeks, even in glaciers, and even in the top of the mountain that is actually raining and snowing. They are such fine particles. We did find plastic bottles and plastic bags in the stomachs of marine life.

Carolyn Virostek: But we also found these microplastics in smaller forms. They can't eat a large bottle, but they are still eating these microplastics, thinking they are food, and they will either die of it or bring it to us. So even in our urine, they also found a lot of microplastics in our system.

Mattbaum: So will it collapse? Yes. But it breaks down into very small plastics. It will not even decompose into combustible or compostable things. It's just very, very small fragments. This is not the answer. We don't want that.

Carolyn Virostek: Yes. For compostables, what is compostable will decompose and may compost. Then we can use it. This is a usable thing, but when it is broken down into microplastics and become smaller parts, it cannot be used, and it is not ideal.

Matt Baum: And it's still dangerous.

Carolyn Virostek: This is still dangerous. I don't want to say it is a terrible thing, because it is much better than using fossil fuels, but we still need to go further to make it the right product.

Mattbaum: Then tell me about the marijuana straw. What are these made of, how does something that feels so completely plastic in your mouth and your hands work, and how is it completely compostable?

Carolyn Virostek: Well, the biggest thing is the plant, hemp. You and I are all supporters of marijuana plants.

Mattbaum: Of course, that's why we are here.

Carolyn Virostek: Because it can do a lot for us. How many plants do we know can use seeds, fiber and pulp to make so many products? One of the important slogans is that hemp can produce 25,000 products. Well, this is actually a kind of injury. I think it can produce more than 25,000 products.

Mattbaum: Oh, yes. totally agree.

Carolyn Virostek: As a plant, hemp is a cellulose-based product. It contains cellulose like sugar, and like sugar cane, it even contains cellulose. These products are used for reference-dereference "plastic manufacturing materials". Because cellulose is a binder. It helps to support this. When you see hemp, stems and biomass, it has a lot of fiber, and it has much more fiber than wood, which is why it gives us strength.

Carolyn Virostek: If we can make hemp into a fine powder and then compress it with other plant elements under heating, this is what we use. These can actually form very strong materials in a very simple way. It can be very complicated, but it can also be very simplified. You can watch YouTube videos, people do this in the kitchen, they heat cornstarch and water, and then use it to make a little plastic. So, hemp is also what we are doing, we are using hemp and making it into a very fine powder, such as starch, and adding other materials to help bind it. Then it is heated and forms a straw.

Mattbaum: So, it basically melts, and the cellulose works with other binders and holds it together. Can you shape like plastic then? You put it around the wooden pegs and it becomes a straw?

Carolyn Virostek: Exactly. Exactly. They do make them into small pellets, just like they did with plastic, so they can put them in the extruder, so they don't have to adjust the machine for the product, but the product will adapt to the machine. In this way, the particles become very small, so that they can be added to the machine. They are then melted in the process and passed through an extruder, which helps to make them, and now it can also be used to make many products. This is the futures bag, the cup, you said it.

Mattbaum: Of course. certainly. Now let me ask you if you are very clear about a question. Because I heard that it is difficult to remove in hemp plastic, is it super easy because of the green and brown nature of the plant?

Carolyn Virostek: Yes, it's super simple.

Mattbaum: But clarity still seems to be an issue?

Caroline Verosteck: Yes. Yes. You really can't make a transparent straw, but you can make an opaque straw, or we will add color, the color we add is the standard color that we can use in the industry, I won't fully talk about plant-based nature , But they are more natural. They can use them to color it into any color you need. But people do like natural colors like hemp stalks.

Matt Baum: Yes. It is green, which makes sense. It comes from hemp. I like. If nothing else, it can distinguish it. Let me ask, do I take a marijuana straw, drink a drink, throw away the marijuana straw or compost. I actually have a compost pile in my backyard. Take it out and throw it in the compost pile. How long has it been?

Carolyn Virostek: Well, it really depends on your compost, because any time you...I want to say that everyone will compost at a certain time, but the situation will be different. In fact, industrial composting will be the fastest and best because they will control the oxygen there. They will control the calories and even control the microbes and all the small animals that will enter there and eat them to make compost. How this will happen in your compost will be different. With all the different seasons, how it will change day after day, let alone month after month.

Mattbaum: Of course. So, let's talk about industrial composting, what is the best situation?

Carolyn Virostek: We have seen them completely biodegrade within 120 days.

Matt Baum: Great. It's like paper.

Caroline Verosteck: Yes. When we look at the compost, there is really nothing in it. There is no residue. This is another great thing, many times you will find some residues because some of the materials they use will destroy the system, and compostable facilities are very picky about what they allow because it will mess up their entire system .

Carolyn Virostek: Therefore, you must pass the BPI World Compostable and Biodegradable certification. They will provide certifications for your products, and we do have those certifications. In fact, in Pittsburgh, we have a composting company. They actually go to restaurants and bring in all the compostable materials. They found our straws and they contacted us because they said, "Are you? Really?" Can you compost? Can you share it with me?" I said, "Yes, yes." And gave him the information.

Carolyn Virostek: Because he said, "Otherwise we have to pull it out." Because it will only mess up the system. I said: "No, you really won't have a problem." This is what you can't say to every PLA product, even PLA, if you send them to a landfill, people will think, "Oh, We are in a landfill, and if it is biodegradable, it will decompose.” Actually it won’t, because the landfill seals them up and there is no oxygen. Without oxygen it won’t decompose, and actually Will produce more methane gas. It is like plastic, if it tries to decompose in that environment, because it is not a suitable environment.

Mattbaum: So, I said it was like a month, we said there is no more food waste, your food waste is here. We will compost it because when you seal it up and put it in a sealed coffin, a lot of methane is produced. At that time you had basically built a bomb, a methane bomb. Is this different from other hemp plastics? Because, I recently talked to some people on the show and asked questions like, "Oh, yes, I just interviewed some people about hemp plastics and the like."

Mattbaum: Some of them are like, "Oh, hemp plastic? Huh. Do you know?" I thought, "Well, I don't follow. What do you mean?" They were like, "It has A lot of hemp filler, but still a lot of plastic." Is this different from that? Have you encountered it elsewhere? Are they lying to me? Because, I bought some hemp plastic products, and I feel very good. It's like, "It's made of hemp plastic." Does it mean that there are different levels of this? Basically, we should pay attention to it?

Caroline Verosteck: Yes. If you look at the 3D printer, it is a lot of hemp plastic, I think they use hemp is great, they want to make things compostable and biodegradable. But many of them will use PLA or PHA, which is another one, which is actually very good. I think it would be better if we did start using PHA instead of PLA, but they still haven't used it.

Carolyn Virostek: But for many 3d plastic filaments, I have not been able to find a filament that does not contain PLA. Now, they do even have different ingredients, or I should say substances, or maybe 25%, 40%, 60% cannabis. Few companies can do 90%, 100%. There is now a company in France and even in Canada, where the percentage of hemp in their plastic is indeed much higher.

Carolyn Virostek: We use this term again. But in their filaments, they do have a better craft, they are using and they are trying to enter the industry and they are doing very well, but still very few companies do this.

Mattbaum: What can you find? I'm just curious. Are there any questions you can ask? When you see someone using hemp plastic or working in a certain way, can you look for something? What do I want them to make sure of... I know they use any hemp as a filler, because the less plastic the better, but if it is just filler and there is still plastic in it, or these PLAs in it, etc., we should ask What is the problem to ensure that we get responsibly made hemp plastic that will decompose and is compostable? Is it as simple as saying "Hey, is this compostable?"?

Carolyn Virostek: This is one of the problems, yes. "Can it be composted?" How long does it take? And, is it PLA? If it is PLA, then we know that it will decompose into microplastics, and it will take longer to decompose, and it will not be compostable, it is biodegradable, but not compostable.

Mattbaum: If I say this word, they will know, "Hey, is their People's Liberation Army here?" They will say, "Oh, this guy knows what he's talking about."

Carolyn Virostek: Well, they would say, "Yes, there is PLA, but it is compostable." It doesn't matter. Yes, yes. I would rather have 25% hemp than no hemp, and 25% PLA instead of the petroleum-based fossil fuels they use.

Carolyn Virostek: That’s the same thing, "Do you use any fossil fuels?" Because some people even use PLA and some fossil fuels to bond it together to make it stronger, but then we changed the compostability and biological Degradability.

Mattbaum: This is exactly the subject of the person I spoke to, and I am not going to call it, because they ask me not to, because they are like, "I don't want to mess up anyone else." He was like, "But now many people who work with hemp plastics actually just incorporate it into old oil-based plastic and use it as a filler." Again, it's better but not the answer, not what we want.

Mattbaum: The idea is to turn to something closer to these cannabis straws, like you said, "reduced into powder, you are adding some..." And I'm not sure, I'm not even I come Looking for scientific terms, what do you add to bind, but you heat it up and flourish, we have plastic. What is the future? Where is this going? This is you... I think straws are so important because if you look at a single waste plastic, it is the largest form of plastic waste.

Matt Baum: This is not a children's toy, or even an industrial plastic, but a single-use plastic. So, obviously, as you said, these are a bit expensive, but the idea behind it is that it is more responsible. Do people react to this? Are people excited about it? Are people willing to spend a little more money? Do you think this will catch on and start to attract the attention of major plastic manufacturers?

Carolyn Virostek: Of course. Due to the properties of marijuana and the absence of PLA, it is exciting. And it is more expensive. Therefore, we must try to make them understand that you can either pay now or pay later. You can pay for the straw as a cheap component, and then pay during the process of having to remove it from the beach, etc., or you can pay more from time to time and worry less.

Carolyn Virostek: We still have to be responsible for how to deal with them and how to compost them. But if it finally enters the ocean or waters, it will decompose, and we don't have to worry about the toxic residue it may leave.

Matt Baum: Yes. This is perfect.

Carolyn Virostek: This is very exciting. Many of us are excited about this. I would say that in the current pandemic environment, everything is closed. It calms things down, but what it does makes people more excited to realize that we need to do something now, this is not something we need to delay for five years or try to include it in the budget, because again, we either pay now, Or we will pay later. And I think now people are very excited about having something that they know will collapse and will not linger in our environment for many years.

Matt Baum: Please correct me if I am wrong, but it sounds, anyway, I guess the price is high just because there are not many people making these things. As more and more people are engaged in the business of manufacturing hemp plastic, this price will fall. Is it just a problem for the producer? Because all aspects of the current cannabis business seem to be, not just at the moment, but in the past four years, their biggest problem is to find producers to do the work.

Mattbaum: Basically, we have farmers and they will grow it, which is great. But what will happen next? Whether it's going to a place where CBD is extracted, or removing fibers or grinding seeds, is this just another case, "We just need more people to do this?"

Caroline Verosteck: Yes. And know how to do it. Absolutely, because even though we grow much more cannabis than a year ago. Many companies say that we have too much biomass, and we don't even have a buyer. What is it, is that they don't actually have the equipment or technology to handle it the way they want, and these machines are millions of dollars.

Carolyn Virostek: They are taking it out, but we are in the throes of growing up, learning how to use this product, and how to use it in the best way, we can use it in the environment, and can not produce any Dispose of it in case of waste. Because we really cannot use the entire factory. We just need to know how and have the right equipment. So, we are now in a big learning curve and feel painful about it.

Mattbaum: How far do you think we are from us? And just call. No, someone will stop you from doing this. No, one would watch a podcast in five years and say, "Nice call." But how far do you think we are before, I went to Starbucks and I got a marijuana straw?

Carolyn Virostek: I hope one to two years.

Caroline Verosteck: Yes. This is definitely my hope.

Matt Baum: That's great.

Carolyn Virostek: What I want to say is that we have very large customers on the list until the pandemic stops everything. The real big company is similar to Starbucks. So it is there. People want and are ready. Right now, we still need the economy to support it.

Mattbaum: So we have machines and we know how to do it. We let people grow it, and now this is just a matter of showing people. This is not only a responsible approach, but also the correct approach. This is a cost-effective thing, and if we put some expertise in it, it's basically like this. This is our biggest problem. Just let them try it more or less.

Caroline Verosteck: Yes. Yes. Then it will come down to the fact that we really need more farmers to produce biomass, because one farm cannot provide Starbucks with biomass.

Carolyn Virostek: This is our hope. Our demand for it is so great that we need more farmers to supply this biomass.

Mattbaum: It seems that many farmers are also involved. The idea of ​​the CBD Gold Rush is, "I want to grow hemp and sell it to CBD weirdos. They will turn it into everything to buy fake drugs for hippies. I want to make money. Then they said, "Oh, that market hasn't arrived yet."

Matt Baum: At the same time, there are not many fiber farmers. Because once again, they seem to have won a lot. What I want to say is, is the industrial company engaged in hemp fiber work, is this also part of the problem? Just persuade people who like, "Hey, it's not just CBD. Can we also grow this plant for fiber and seeds?"

Carolyn Virostek: It's machinery. In order to break down hemp into the products you need, whether for clothing or for use, quote-dereference "plastic". It has the right machine to break it down. I think this is the reason why many companies slow down the processing speed. Marijuana is my passion. I do think we should use it more. I think my knowledge of plants may only be 0.5%, but I think we are still learning.

Mattbaum: But this is the most exciting part, right?

Mattbaum: It’s like, how many other plants are being grown by farmers in the U.S., Iowa, Nebraska, Kentucky, and Colorado. We’re like, “Oh my God, we still have a lot of This." What can we learn from it? It's like, if we find, like, "Look at those corn, we can use it to build skyscrapers." Who knows?

Carolyn Virostek: Who knew we could fill up the car with corn oil?

Matt Baum: Yes. This is crazy.

Caroline: We can do it, but did we do it? It's the same with cannabis. We can manufacture all these products. Why not us?

Carolyn Virostek: First, the infrastructure does not exist. In addition, we still have regulations that restrict what can be done. In some states, they do not allow the use of biomass or fiber or anything for animal bedding, or even that simple, or animal feed.

Mattbaum: Not to mention animal feed. They won't even let them hang out there. For example, will a cow be stoned to death? Come on, this is ridiculous.

Carolyn Virostek: These things only make you question, "Really, why don't we use it more?" Like flax, it is also a usable plant. My great-great-grandfather brought it from Ireland in the 1850s. Arrived in Canada. I didn't realize this until I started researching hemp a few years ago and then I realized that he actually wrote a book in Canada about the importance of flax and flax for fiber, clothing and many different things, for food. He played an important role in bringing flax to North America, but we still haven't used flax, even to the point where we can use it. Cannabis is the same.

Matt Baum: We put it in a smoothie and nothing more, because it helps digestion. right? You can do more things with it. This is crazy.

Carolyn Virostek: For hemp, even making clothing and construction materials, if you have seen hemp wood, there will be a company Hemp Wood.

Matt Baum: I just interviewed them. I just interviewed them on the show. They are great.

Carolyn Virostek: I like their wood. For Hempcrete, what I think we should do is, especially in California, Colorado, Oregon, because of all these forest fires, we need to rebuild with cannabis, because if you can put a blowtorch on cannabis, why don’t we build ——

Mattbaum: Same as numbness. The numbness hardly burns, which is crazy.

Carolyn Virostek: They are antibacterial, antibacterial. When there are so many floods and hurricanes in the south, why don't we use it, because if it gets wet, all you have to do is bring a dehumidifier and let it dry out.

Matt Baum: Yes. You are very happy to go.

Carolyn Virostek: And now you have to dismantle the entire structure because it will be moldy in three days.

Matt Baum: Oh, but there is also a complete cottage industry. So they may not be happy because they lost their jobs.

Carolyn Virostek: Exactly. This is why the fossil fuel industry pays $125 million a year to lobby to keep their oil in the plastics industry. Everything else is the same. I think we will more and more develop in this direction, building materials, clothing, containers, furniture, I really hope we can do it.

Mattbaum: This is inevitable, because oil will become more and more expensive and more bizarre. We have to find a way to it, we filter it from sand and other things now, it will become more and more expensive, like you said cannabis, they can grow it in a month.

Carolyn Virostek: Yes. And it has no toxic by-products. If you fracture all the toxic by-products from the water and pollute it, then how does it actually heal the land. And create more carbon dioxide for us. It can really help heal the planet. Yes. Why don't we use more? This is all political, but we are getting there.

Mattbaum: Of course. It will happen. I feel great. You feel good, we also feel good. right?

Carolyn Virostek: Well, another thing is, if you look at Europe, they are far ahead. They have been making clothes for decades. Now, they even use hemp to make cars. Internal components, dashboards and other things are made of hemp because it is stronger and lighter. Therefore, it makes fuel consumption better.

Matt Baum: Yes. I interviewed a company that worked with Maserati and Mercedes. It's not like they make rubbish here. They are making hemp plastic for very expensive high-end cars. I asked him, "Why don't we do this in the United States?" He went on, "Well, we really don't want to mess with all your BS now, as long as you figure it out, we will be there."

Caroline Verosteck: Yes. It must make you question. Why are they already being manufactured in Europe, but we don't have an American car manufacturer?

Mattbaum: It's extremely stupid.

Carolyn Virostek: We also know that cars do not have to rely on fossil fuels. right? We can use corn oil and hemp oil to run our cars.

Carolyn Virostek: Yes. They want to tax people who use solar energy. What is threatened is the government regulations supported by these big companies. This is why we started to lose cannabis in the 1930s, because politics and companies feared entering their field. We are only dealing with this issue in 2020.

Mattbaum: That's why they also hesitate to bring it back. I don't want to take up your time anymore. This is great. Thank you. thank you very much. Thank you for the straws. They are great.

Carolyn Virostek: Oh, you're welcome. Thank you, Matt. I really appreciate that you let me be there and made me feel at ease.

Matt Baum: Completely. I took a box of straws to my local coffee shop, and I thought, "Let's take a look. These are marijuana straws." They were like, "Gosh, these are awesome." It's like super or libertarian, In Omaha, in our little blue pocket in Nebraska, you will see people who have Marxist conversations and other things in Omaha, but they like them. So I will let them contact. I will definitely let them contact so they can order some.

Carolyn Virostek: Great. Thank you, Matt. I appreciate it.

Matt Baum: Caroline is very happy to talk to her, she is the kind of person who is very passionate about marijuana. I like talking to such people. Interesting story. When she first started, I told her that I would not mention this in the show, but I thought it was very interesting and you should know.

Matt Baum: When we first started talking, she was really worried that we might not be able to use interviews because she usually doesn't talk about these things. She doesn't have a scientific background, but as you can see, she is very proficient in hemp plastics and bioplastics. It was great to talk to her. Thank you very much for participating in the show, Caroline, I will provide a link to exhemplarylife.com in the show description. And, as I promise you, if you use the discount code 25% off, which is 25OFF, you will enjoy a 25% discount on your first purchase on exhemplarylife.com. That is 25OFF, use this code to enjoy a 25% discount.

Matt Baum: Let them know that you have heard of their website on the Cannabis Department podcast, and let them know that you thank them for what they do on their website. As always, because we believe that the world is a better place for everyone when it is more accessible, we also provide a complete written record of the show in the program description.

Matt Baum: Now is the promised game time. I would like to announce the three winners of our Model Life and Cannabis Department and Instagram Giveaway. Congratulations to @ritualsofthekitchen, @xtra_salt_xtra_lime and @Kateanne27. You are all big winners of hemp straws and hemp stickers. So when you listen to the Cannabis Department podcast, go tell you every money you win. Oh, you can also follow us on Instagram, we will introduce in detail later.

Matt Baum: This brings us to the end of another exciting episode of the Cannabis Department podcast. If you have a deep understanding of what we are doing on this show, and you think cannabis can change the world, then the best way for you to support us is to visit Patreon.com/ministryofhemp and become an insider in the cannabis department. This is a great way to help us spread information. You can access additional podcast content, early articles, and various other content, not to mention that you will feel better knowing that you are helping us spread the good news of cannabis education.

Matt Baum: If you need more cannabis education in your life, please visit Ministryofhemp.com. Check out all our great articles there. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, we are either in the marijuana department or in the marijuana department, maybe you have a marijuana problem. Maybe you have some topics you want to hear about me in the show.

Matt Baum: Call me and leave me a message. Tell me about it. 402-819-6417. Leave me a message on our marijuana department voice line. I may answer your questions on the show with little help, Drew and Kate, and may even hear about whom soon. She is great. She is our cameraman. We love her. Again, the number is 402-819-6417. Call us and ask your questions, you may hear our answers on the show.

Mattbaum: Now, I hope you all have a safe and happy Thanksgiving. Remember to wash your hands. I hope you are not traveling. If you are outside and need to be extra careful, please wear a mask so that I can get out of here. And I like to end in the same way every time and say: "Remember to take care of yourself, remember to take care of others and make the right decision, okay?" I am Matt Baum from the Cannabis Department. Sign for.

Matt Baum has hosted, produced and edited podcasts for nearly a decade. As far as he can remember, he has been a traveling musician, chef, journalist, and avid comic book fan. Currently, Matt lives in Omaha Nebraska with his wife Casey and the pugs Mable and Bobo.

Your email address will not be published. Required places have been marked *

© Copyright 2021. Blue Ribbon Group Co., Ltd. all rights reserved. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. The products mentioned on this website are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. As a consumer, it is your responsibility to understand local, state and federal laws before purchasing. All products on this website are used for legal purposes. Before purchasing a product on this website, you should confirm the legality of the product in the state where you request it to be shipped.