My future black hemp shoes at Neo 39?

Has YT found what he's looking for?

Found several pairs of hemp shoes at Neo 39, but only one of them was black - a pair of Saucony's. Sure wish I could find a wider selection of hemp shoes in Old Town.

Id stop by the Vans store again, but I'm still mad after my last Vans shopping trip. Of course, this trip wasn't much better. Fricken sale's people don't even know they have hemp.

Nonetheless, I think the Sauconys might work, but I have to come back and try them on with shorts.

Do you wear weed? Check out more of YT's hemp adventures at Iwearweed.com.

Stinky hemp shoes

Smell resistance?

I have sweaty feet, and sweat means stink. Thus, I thought that hemp shoes might alleviate this nuisance. Unfortunately, one pair of my hemp shoes is the stinkiest pair I currently own. Now, perhaps, this is much more about the sole of the shoe, which is not made of hemp, and it has nothing to do with the hemp at all.

Moreover, I have a few other pairs of hemp shoes as well that are not stinky. Nonetheless, I've noticed nothing about my hemp shoes that makes me believe that hemp shoes fight foot odor better than any other kind of shoe.

Still, that was a minor and insignificant reason for my hemp shoe purchases.

Wanted: Black hemp shoes

Should I get them?

Damn it.

I went to the Vans store in Old Town Pasadena to check out some shoes. They had this new pair of hemp shoes, but they were brown and I'm looking for black shoes.

So, I asked the salesperson if they had them in black. "I don't think they make them in black," she replied.

Thus, today, I almost bought these brown hemp shoes at the Vans Store. Thankfully, I got caught up at Barneys in Old Town Pasadena and had a few too many.

Fortunately, however, I came home and checked out the Van's website and found these black hemp shoes.

Anybody else shopping for black hemp shoes?

Hemp Legalization: Let's grow up America

The dangers of hemp?

These are some of my hemp shoes. Speaking of hemp shoes, I just saw a really cool pair yesterday at the Van's Store in Old Town Pasadena.

Anyway. So, let's roll some hemp and smoke it.

Feel better?

No. In fact you probably have a headache because hemp is not a drug. Hemp has very little THC, the ingredient in marijuana that makes it a drug worthy of regulation.

Hemp, on the other hand, is used for clothes, food, car parts, etc. and on and on. Hemp is an industrial product. Yet, it is still illegal just because it looks like marijuana. So, only looks matter? Not reality?

Certainly there have been relatively recent studies, such as the infamous University of Wisconsin hemp-hammering study that essentially claims hemp might not be very useful today compared to other crops.

Perhaps. Minimally, nonetheless, hemp is a great organic product that is conducive to other organic crops, minimally. Even the UW study acknowledges that fact.

The point is, legalize it and let's see what happens. It's already a billion+ industry. Yet, American companies have to import hemp because it looks like marijuana?

Let's grow up America, or are we still just skin deep?

M's Patrol hemp shoes

Eco-friendly Hemp Shoes

I have two pairs of these M's Patrol shoes from Patagonia, the Alpaca Brown and the Blue. When I first bought these hemp shoes, I wasn't sure if I was going to like them, but I kind of liked the way the looked. More important, I loved the fact that they utilized a significant amount of hemp.

They do feel a bit different when you wear them, and I noticed that as soon as I tried them on, it feels almost as if M's Patrol hemp shoes need to be a bit wider on the bottom.

Anyway, I wore them for about a month, taking them on several long walks, and I was surprised that these green, eco-friendly shoes neither led to foot or back pain. Thus, I picked up another pair in a different color.

I love these green shoes from Patagonia. M's Patrol Hemp shoes might take getting a little used to, but its worth the effort if you care to purchase green, eco-friendly footwear.

Price $85.00

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