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Why We Need Hemp
I suppose I should have put this out on Tuesday, but I was busy getting vaccinated and didn’t think about it.
Besides, I’m not talking about marijuana. I’m talking about its cousin, hemp.
Hemp is Cannabis sativa L. and because of the close connection, you need a license to grow it. It’s not even legal at all in Idaho, South Dakota, and Mississippi.
And this is bad. Let’s go into a few reasons why we should be growing more hemp. Quite a lot more hemp.
CBD
People tend to think CBD oil comes from marijuana. In most cases, it comes from hemp.
There are two really significant chemicals in marijuana. One of them is tetrahydrocannabinol, usually called THC. This is the chemical that gets you high. Then there’s cannabinol, which does not get you high, but does have some (but not all) of the health benefits.
While for some medical purposes (such as increasing the appetite of cancer patients on chemotherapy) you do need THC (Why, yes, it does work by giving you the munchies), for others you don’t.
And in order to keep THC levels low, CBD is normally obtained from hemp, which doesn’t produce nearly as much THC.