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”?
“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!
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”.
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
One of my friends comes from generations of tobacco farmers. This year it’s all about hemp. But he’s not in Sunday school much because he’s in the field guarding them from hemp thieves.
Trying to get high off those plants is like trying to get drunk on “alcohol free” beer. But the plants are pretty valuable for CBD, and he has a lot invested in them, so guard them, he does.
The best thing about decriminalizing hemp is the havoc it’s going to play on people selling real pot that have to compete with startups selling stuff they stole from a field or found growing in a ditch.
Just another story of how you can’t fix stupid.
Stupid is as stupid does. Reminds me of the crooks who broke into someone’s house and stole what they thought was cocaine. It turned out to be the ashes of the homeowner’s grandma.
“Next year, Weaver plans to hide his hemp plants far from any public road and plant several rows of corn around the perimeter of all his hemp fields. He hopes this will eliminate most of the problems.”
Try Concertina/Razor Wire. Corn rows will just give the thieves a place to hide.
Hop heads will smoke just about anything.
Some would call Hemp “Fool’s Gold”.
And who are the true idiots that think that industrial hemp cannot be sold by a profiteer as certified chronic ganja? SMH, lunacy.
Actually, things being relative, the opinion of how much THC a plant contains is probably relative too.