I just thought it was cool they could make the sand a viable growing media. By adding stability to the sand with the clay. I mean sand has no real nutrient value without liquid fertilizer like coco i guess 
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Sure. the most important consideration of a soil (or mediaās) fertility is the CEC (Cation Exchange Capacity). Without the clay ācoatingā the sand particle, it would have no CEC at all !
I was kind of hoping they would mention more about the clay they were using! Iām kind of guessing but leaning toward something like bentonite clayā¦a very small āstickyā paricleā¦but honestly thatās a complete guess on my part. Bentonite is actually used in oil drilling āmudā so I know it would be available, relatively inexpensive in the middle east (big drilling area)
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I read recently that a few local companies are selling out to outside entities. When this happens the weed tax doesnāt go to Colorado but to these other companies.
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Most African colonial governments banned cannabis before it was listed in the 1925 Opium Convention (Illustration 4). Additional laws were enacted after this agreement, but drug-law enforcement did not immediately change (Klantschnig, 2014; Akyeampong, 2005; Du Toit, 1980). Arrests continued where authorities were already watching for cannabis; elsewhere, concern grew gradually. Cannabis became salient in many African locations only after World War Two, when returning servicemen and merchant sailors brought it to port cities. Physicians became increasingly concerned about cannabis use and mental illness in African societies (Klantschnig, 2014; Mills, 2003). Anti-cannabis drug-law enforcement intensified globally in the 1960s. The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 established a prohibitionist framework for controlling cannabis, and conservative authorities sought to eradicate the drug that they associated with countercultural movements (Bewley-Taylor et al., 2014). In several African countries, Rastafarianism has been a countercultural target of anti-cannabis campaigns. Independent African countries maintained colonial-era anti-cannabis laws in order to comply with international agreements, and because many elites disapproved of the drug (Carrier and Klantschnig, 2018). In the 1980s, cannabis production increased continent-wide, in correlation with economic crises; production has since grown consistently, although not uniformly between countries (Perez and Laniel, 2004; Carrier and Klantschnig, 2016; Chouvy and Afsahi, 2014; Destrebecq, 2007). Africa has been an active front in the global War on Drugs since the 1990s (Carrier and Klantschnig, 2012; Ellis, 2009), but national governments have shown varying levels of tolerance toward cannabis (Carrier and Klantschnig, 2018).
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The War on Drugs started in Africa way before anslinger.
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Donāt they call those de-humidifiers ? lol
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Bentonite clay is also used in the paint industry, in solvent based paints to make the paint pigments and resin to āgelā and not become hard in the bottom of the container. My mother owned a industrial paint company, we made traffic paint for the states of Missouri and Illinois. Millions of gallons. She sold the company back in the 80ās. No idea what type of paint they use now. We made two kinds fast and slow dry, the only real difference was the solvent in the paint other than that the formulas were the same. This is the reason you see a truck a mile back from the spray truck, to allow the ātack freeā dry time, so that cars crossing the line didnāt pick up and pull the paint strip off the pavement. The spray trucks heat the paint then spray it on it dries almost instantly. I imagine that they still use solvent based alkyled resin paint. I donāt believe that Latex and water reduceable resin paint would dry fast enough for that application.
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If they are local to the state of colorado how do they not pay taxes in the state in which they are located? Even if a company whose headquarters are based elsewhere?