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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HEMP AND MARIJUANA
Industrial Hemp and Marijuana technically comes from the same species of plant -cannabis Sativa, but it is from a different variety or subspecies.
However, since the 1950s hemp has been lumped into the same category of marijuana, and thus the extremely versatile crop was doomed in the United States.
THE MAIN DIFFERENCES ARE:-
Industrial Hemp has low THC levels (the ingredient that makes one high), compared to marijuana specifically cultivated for personal psychoactive use. Whereas marijuana that can be smoked usually contains between five and ten percent THC, industrial hemp contains about one-tenth of that.
The reason for the low THC content in hemp is the most THC is formed in resin glands on thebuds and flowers of the female cannabis plant. Industrial hemp is not cultivated to produce buds, and therefore lacks the primary components that forms the marijuana high. Furthermore, industrial hemp has concentrations of a chemical called Cannabidiol (CBD) that has a negative effect on THC and lessens its psychoactive effects when smoked in conjunction.
Industrial hemp variety has a much stronger fibre. This fibre can be used in anything from rope and blankets to paper. Marijuana fibra has a low tensile strength and will break or shred easily, making it a poor fibrous plant when compared to industrial hemp.
Industrial hemp also grows differently than marijuana: Hemp is typically grown upwards, notoutwards, because the focus is not on producing buds but on producing length of stalks. In this way, hemp is a very similar crop to bamboo. The stalk contains the fibre and hard, woody core material that can be used for a variety of purposes, even carpentry.
Generally, THC-producing marijuana plants are grown to an average of five feet in height, whilst industrial hemp on the other hand is grown to a height of ten to fifteen feet before harvest. Also, it is fairly difficult to grow concealed marijuana within industrial hemp crops as the DEA* alleges.
Since industrial hemp is grown so close together and is generally a very narrow, vertical growth crop, any THC-producing marijuana would stick out like a sore thumb. Its wide growth would require a large amount of space to itself in order to get adequate sunlight from beyond the tops of the competing industrial hemp plants.
The two also differ in the areas that they can be effectively grown. THC-producing marijuana must be grown in generally warm and humid environments in order to produce the desired quantity and quality of THC-containing buds. However, since industrial hemp does not contain these buds and the hardy parts of the plant are the more desired, it can be grown in a wider range of areas.Generally, industrial hemp grows best on fields that provide high yields for corn crops. Furthermore, since industrial hemp can use male plants as well as female plants (since the object is not THC production), higher crop yields can result.
Hemp also has little potential to produce high-content THC when pollinated. As long as industrial hemp plants are pollinated by members of their own crop, then the genetics will remain similar with low levels of THC.
One would have to place several marijuana plants in close vicinity in over several generations in order to alter the genetics substantially of the offspring.
Since there are so many differences between industrial hemp and
THC-marijuana, it seems to make sense that it would be a fostered,
rather than demonized crop.
THC-marijuana, it seems to make sense that it would be a fostered,
rather than demonized crop.
For a crop that has little-to-no potential to get people high,
the current attitude is both irresponsible and draconian.
Industrial hemp could transform the economy GLOBALLY in a positive and beneficial way and therefore should be exploited to its full potential!
Source: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/91602/differences_between_industrial_hemp.html?cat=37 (with some adjustments)
*DEA: The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a United States federal law enforcement agency under the U.S.Department of Justice, tasked with combating drug smuggling and use within the United States.
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WHAT IS HEMP OR MORE COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS INDUSTRIAL HEMP?
It is a commonly used term for high-growing industrial varieties of the Cannabis plant and its products, which include fibre, oil and seed.
Hemp is refined into products such as hemp seed foods, hemp oil, wax, resin, rope, cloth, pulp, paper and fuel.
Industrial Hemp is not to be confused with the close relative cannabis, which is also a Cannabis plant, but is widely used as a recreational drug and medicine.
THE BENEFITS OF USING HEMP:
AT PRESENT...
Hemp stalks and seeds are used by industrial/commercial companies for textiles, foods, papers, body care products, detergents, plastics and building materials.
Today hemp for commercial use is grown mostly by China, Hungary, England, Canada, Australia, France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and India and throughout Asia.
Hemp is refined into products such as hemp seed foods, hemp oil, wax, resin, rope, cloth, pulp, paper and fuel.
Industrial Hemp is not to be confused with the close relative cannabis, which is also a Cannabis plant, but is widely used as a recreational drug and medicine.
THE BENEFITS OF USING HEMP:
- Hemp fibre is the longest, strongest and most durable of all natural fibres.
- Hemp cultivation requires no chemicals, pesticides or herbicides and controls erosion of the topsoil and produces oxygen.
- Grown in rotation with other crops such as corn and legumes, hemp farming is completely sustainable.
- Hemp produces four times as much fibre per acre as pine trees.
- Hemp tree-free paper can be recycled up to seven times, compared with three times for pine-pulp based papers.
- Hemp is easy to grow, and actually conditions the soil where it grows.
- The seed and seed-oil are HIGH IN PROTEIN, ESSENTIAL FATTY AND AMINO ACIDS AND VITAMINS.
- Hemp would be an ideal source of biomass for fuel and hemp Ethanol burns very cleanly.
- Hemp and humanity have been linked for over 10, 000 years.
- Hemp was our first agricultural crop, and remained the planet's largest crop and most important industry until late last century.
- Furthermore, hemp can be used to replace many potentially harmful products, such as tree paper, (the processed of which used chlorine bleach, which results in the waste product 'polychlorinated dibenzodioxins', popularly known as 'dioxins', which are carcinogenic and contribute to deforestation, cosmetics and plastic, most of which are petroleum-based and do not decompose easily. The strongest chemical needed to whiten the already light hemp paper is non-toxic hydrogen peroxide.
AT PRESENT...Hemp stalks and seeds are used by industrial/commercial companies for textiles, foods, papers, body care products, detergents, plastics and building materials.
Today hemp for commercial use is grown mostly by China, Hungary, England, Canada, Australia, France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and India and throughout Asia.
The difference between - Hemp and Marijuana: both come from the same plant - Cannabis Sativa L. However, it is from a different variety, or subspecies that contains many important differences.
Industrial hemp contains only about 0.3% - 1.5% THC (Tetrahydrocannabinoids, the intoxicating ingredients that make you high) while marijuana contains about 5% - 10% or more THC.
In order to get a psychoactive effect, one would need to smoke ten or twelve hemp cigarettes over a very short period of time.
In order to get a psychoactive effect, one would need to smoke ten or twelve hemp cigarettes over a very short period of time.
“Industrial hemp could transform the economy of the ‘Whole World’ in a positive and beneficial way, and therefore should be exploited to its full potential.”
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