Posted on 09/19/2021 6:37:21 PM PDT by algore
This is the third year that u-pick hemp has been available in Whitefield; it’s apparently the only such hemp operation in Maine.
The enterprise was made possible with the passage of the 2018 federal Farm Bill when hemp was legalized after a longstanding ban on the crop. While hemp is a member of the cannabis family, it doesn’t contain THC, the intoxicating substance that marijuana is known for. In fact, the state’s Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry tests the crop to ensure its tetrahydrocannabinol level is appropriately low.
“You’d literally have to smoke a barn full of this stuff to get high,” Marcus said.
Hemp is grown and harvested for a variety of products, including hemp seed and hemp fibers.
As of August, Maine has 49 licensed hemp growers, including the Marcuses.
Jim Britt, DACF communications director, said about 40 of the growers will have crops this year.
The state of Maine makes no distinction from a regulatory standpoint whether hemp is grown for food, fiber or CBD.
The Marcuses are growing hemp for cannabidiol, or CBD, and for cannabigerol or CBG.
Marcus said the first person to show up on Wednesday was a man who has a headache disorder and spent $80 on four plants that’s expected to help him for a year. While a lot of people find that CBD helps them, it can be expensive to buy.
“He freezes the plants and makes a tincture and uses that,” she said. He uses the tincture in place of drugs that leave him unable to drive, among other side effects, Marcus said.
(Excerpt) Read more at centralmaine.com ...
Awful pollen launching plants. A yellow cloud all over everything.
I used to know a dude that could do that...
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