Posted on 01/15/2020 11:00:11 AM PST by Red Badger
I’m far from an expert on Cannabis, but just how similar (taxonomy wise) are the two plants?
Apparently smoking pot greatly diminishes ones ability to read...
Hemp was an important industrial crop back in the day.
I remember hearing stories of Chicagoans coming down here to north-west Indiana (100 miles from Chicago) and driving through fields to get the “marijuana” growing along the ditch banks. It was wild hemp plants that remained from when hemp was grown in the fields to replace the hemp from the Philippines that the US Navy used to make ropes for its ships from. That was back in the 50’s - 70’s.
“Weaver lost some 250 plants this season, which equates to between $25,000 and $75,000 in revenue, he said”
Really? That seems like a lot.
Why do you think they call it “dope”?
They are different strains of the same plant.
“We put up signs” reading “Not marijuana; Under surveillance; No THC; Won’t get you high,” she said. The outcome: “It didn’t really matter.”
The black market ropemakers care not about such things!
Similar, but you would be able to tell because the buds are only on females. You would not see male plants in a field of cannabis like that. And I cannot imagine growing a field of female plants outdoors—they would become rag-weed with the first good wind storm.
So, I gets me gummint axeption to grows me some “hemp”.
They sayz, don’t grow no gonzo, boy!
But, them neighborhood crackers come steal it.
I decides to plant me some corn on the outside to “hide” it.
Them crack-heads still be comin round.
SO, I plants me about 35% gonzo in the middle, surround it with hemp and hide it with corn.
Them boys come around stealin my hemp and I lose me some munny.
More than make up for it with the gonzo I harvest and sell to them stupid rednecks on the side.
Win-win.
The 21st Century version of “Wildwood Weed”.
No kidding. I can understand it if you have a medical condition for the pain but other than that, we aint in high school anymore...
You know the saying “kids smoke pot, men drink booze”..
Hemp was huge for sails and the shipping industries.
Hemp and Marijuana are the same plant, Cannabis Sativa, but are different varieties. What is called Hemp is bred for high levels of CBD and for its fibers while Marijuana is bred for high levels of THC. It seems that with Cannabis Sativa when it’s bred for THC it produces low levels of CBD, and vice versa.
Same species, just a different breed. Pretty much indistinguishable unless you try to smoke it or you are a botanist.
In addition, it was far more hardy than cotton. More on that here.
Hemp fibers are very strong and last well.
I think they used to make ropes out of it a lot before the synthetic era.
Hemp plants don’t necessarily contain 0% THC, but the levels are too negligible to smoke, particularly if you are a pot head. Like other plants, the marijuana strains of hemp were bred and cultivated over a long period of time for their effects
I used to spend my summers in Vermont farm country. I would walk through cornfields to get to the swimming and fishing in the lake.
I was walking with my 13 year old brother one day and the crop looked like funny corn. My brother had to educate me.
I was terrified. He told me to stop being a baby—that the farmers were not going to shoot us as long as we did not pick it or knock it down.
It was one of the first times I got the “be cool” speech.
Visually almost identical................
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