A postponed Introduction

[Ben]

Ive been frequenting for a while now...Ive given some, Ive took some..Ive met some of the regulars....

And I havent even introduced meself.

NAME: Ben aka Switch aka Gemini.
OCCUPATION: Primarily, Im a tattooist...at a place called "Lefties Tattoo and Hemp Accessories.I also do alot of freelance design for many small businesseses...they handle grammar.
AGE: 24 years...as of June 13 2005
GENDER: Uh...male

Intrests: Um...Im trying to start a non profit organization that is hoping to spread awareness of hemp oil and fiber for use in fuel and textile....spreading awareness makes new advanced possible....but without awareness its a stagnant cause....
Im also very much into Painting and fine arts....
And Im a freak for Heavy Metal and Old dirty country music....also into most of the old punk....not green day kids.....much older.

I have 9 pet gerbils (A family) and a Kitten named Clifford...

I dont get out much in the winter, as spring and summer are the busy times for work, in my case.

The game Im working on is called "The Gemini Strain" It started out as a FF fangame, but now, Im losing the FF monicker, in favor of creative freedoms.

Im a raging pothead....but I actually do things with my life....pot dosent make you lazy and lethergic, wasting your energy makes you lazy and lethargic.....Im giving you pearls here.

I can come off as a Jack@$$ sometimes, but Im really not.

Thats about all I can think of...

I dont have alot of my art online.....
my various threads and submissions here.....and my myspace page

www.myspace.com/knivesarequiet or www.myspace.com/knives_are_quiet

one of the two. I honestly cant remember.....the myspace pics get rotated periodically....I think theres a couple of tats there that Ive done......I dunno....

[Darkfox]

Hemp oil eh? My dad has an idea for alchahol and a magnetism based idea for locomotion. Hmmmm...

[MrMister]

Woo drugs

[Ben]

no....not drugs......Herbal Stress releif...
Drugs make people overdose.

With hemp Oil.....
Right now, Biodiessel is a potentially much more efficient form of feul over petrol based fuels....and Allthough obscured and belittled by large oil corporations, is flourishing....currently, it is manufactured by canola plants......the technologies out there for Biofuels are centered around canola as the source....
In theory, Hemp Could yeild way more than canola, but the technolgy hasnt been made available....awareness and research lead to newer more efficient ways to use hemp oil....wich with about 1/3 of the crop area as canola, would yeild about the same amount of useable oil.

The thing is.....Petroleum is running low.....and in 50 years,  it will be so freaking expensive, that we will have to rely on organic substitues.....

They say that the oil companies fill the pockets in the earth they take the oil from....to prevent issues of a seizmic nature....But 90% of my friends are lifetime oilfield workers, and I know that here in canada.....they only fill about 1/3 of the holes, if that.....wuith water (A substance with significantly lower density than petrol......)

Alternatives need to be found to fossil fuels....and hemp, is the option with the most potential....

And as for the "Drug" aspect of my use..........If i Didnt smoke Pot, id still be popping 2-6 antipsycotics, tranquilizers and sedatives daily....and spending 3 month out of my year in the Psychiatric hospital.....Im a productive smoker.....and aside from my medicinal use, I think its alot healthier to smoke recreationally than Drink.....

Read up on it.