Difference between hemp and pot

[CannaBunkerMan]

Hi! 1st time poster, long time time lurker here. To start things off right, here's a question for you.

What is the difference between hemp and pot?

I was just reading the latest on NORML

http://blog.norml.org/2011/04/06/ask-norml-hemp-for-victory/

and it reffered to hemp as, "marijuana’s non-psychoactive sister".

I know that hemp, the fiber, cannot get you high. If you were growing hemp, you'd harvest well before the budding started.

If you were to grow industrial hemp, and allow the plant to flower, would it start to produce psychoactive ingredients?

I believe this nuance is glossed over by hemp activists, trying to make hemp seem even more amazing than it already is. (Hard to do...)

I know the popular belief is that hemp can't get you high. Do you have any annecdotal evidence of this? Does anyone know of a chem analysis of a hemp bud? Have you smoked hemp buds?

 

[AGBeer]

TBT I have pondered this question as well. I know that the hemp plant produces a negligible amount of THC, but what about CBD/CBN and the other medicinal goodies? I refuse to believe that toilet paper and t-shirts are its only uses

 

[Sam_Skunkman]

No hemp will not get you high.
Modern hemp varieties are less then .2% THC when flowered. And must have more CBD then THC.
Oh and BTW, hemp is flowered before harvest, no matter what you think you know.
And yes you do get small amounts of CBD, but they are less then 1% so not such a good source when there are CBD varieties that are 10%.
So yes you could do what you say, but it would be a waste of time.
-SamS

 

[RollmeoneKenobi]

And you would be correct AG. Industrial hemp is Cannabis Sativa, but it has been reared for fiber not medicine. Check it out on Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp

 

[CannaBunkerMan]

Oh and BTW, hemp is flowered before harvest, no matter what you think you know.

Wiki says otherwise:

"Ideally, according to Britain's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the herb should be harvested before it flowers. This early cropping is done because fibre quality declines if flowering is allowed and, incidentally, this cropping also pre-empts the herb's maturity as a potential source of drug material. However, in these strains of industrial hemp the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content would have been very low, regardless."

I've never seen that .2 percent statistic stated about hemp flowers, just about hemp in general. The distinction is never made in the wiki article about whether or not "hemp" and the .2% statistic refer to the fiber or the flower. Neither is the distinction made in Jack Herer's The Emperor.

 

[pearlemae]

Hemp wonderful plant that it is will give you the head ache of a life time if you smoke it,may as well smoke maple leaves for all the good you'll get.

 

[CannaBunkerMan]

Hemp wonderful plant that it is will give you the head ache of a life time if you smoke it,may as well smoke maple leaves for all the good you'll get.

Have you smoked hemp flowers?

 

[Haps]

I have sampled wild hemp many times, in the years when I was not toking, it was a way to get a few buds to dry and toke, even if just for the smoking and smell. If you are clean, you can get a low grade buzz, but you can also do that by holding your breath long enough, so...

Hemp hybrids are also mostly not worth the time, at least the ones I have tried, we have much better genetic stock available to bother to work with it.

In 57, U of Ill, did a study stressing hemp plants with a variety of methods, and were able to get a 7 per cent thc testing on at least one, been a while since I read that. Again, this is just not worth our time.

H

 

[dankski]

I know ones good for rope and the other for dope.

 

[johnnybhang]

I think any strain will produce thc in accordance with the environment its been in. For example the spanish took hemp with them all over to use for rope etc. Those same hemp strains a few years later were noticed by the natives to have extraordinary drug properties. Whereas you could take a drug strain from the tropics and naturalize it in the midwest and it would be low thc in a few years. Environment makes all the difference in determining if a strain will maintain high thc on its own, without human help.

 

[Tuhder]

I always thought when people talked about Hemp, They were talking about Ruderalis.

 

[johnnybhang]

Hemp can be any cannabis species, be it sativa, indica or ruderalis. Though most of what is grown as hemp is cannabis sativa.

 

[Bebopp]

A couzin of mine found a whole patch of feral hemp leftover from when we were groing it in the USA... Said it would get you less high than tobacco..

 

[Rinse]

Hemp (at least the type grown in u.k) will not get you high...
Cannabinoids far too low (0.2 THC max)

I think some countries have looser restrictions and you might get a mild high from some hemp, but thats a guess...

I will say this though hemp grown here in U.K tastes like crap with no buzz, and Ive been to a few hemp fields and they were ALL flowered before harvest and were full of ripe seeds...

The seeds are big grey/oblong shape, and will germinate.
The plants tend to grow to one stem with a main bud at the top, barely any branching.
They are also big time hermies!

 

[ladygrey]

always wanted to know but what if you made hash from hemp?

 

[IwannagethighOG]

What I would really like to know is how can the hemp plant be used to make a fuel like substance that can run cars and machines on?

What if you genetically modified the hemp plant to produce 5x the amount of oil and also produce quicker than usual?

Also what if you crossed the most stinkest sour diesel smelling(the one that reeks like gas) plant to a hemp plant? Would that make it into a gas producing hybrid?

What if they took Henry Fords original model for the hemp engine and built upon that with today's technology?

 

[yoss33]

Hemp was grown in my country up to 1978, especially in my region. We still have a lot of feral hemp around the fields. Some of it will have no effect, others will pack a headache, some just a slight buzz but no high.
Some hemp plants have quite glistening buds (in the August heat) yet they give at most a headache.

 

[CannaBunkerMan]

always wanted to know but what if you made hash from hemp?

Do hemp flowers produce glandular trichomes that just don't contain THC, or is that the differece, that hemp flowers don't produce glandular trichomes? If there are no trichomes, you can't make hash.

 

[CannaBunkerMan]

What I would really like to know is how can the hemp plant be used to make a fuel like substance that can run cars and machines on?

What if you genetically modified the hemp plant to produce 5x the amount of oil and also produce quicker than usual?

Also what if you crossed the most stinkest sour diesel smelling(the one that reeks like gas) plant to a hemp plant? Would that make it into a gas producing hybrid?

What if they took Henry Fords original model for the hemp engine and built upon that with today's technology?

I think hemp oil comes from pressing the seeds. Hemp is already one of the top producers of biomass out there, producing many times more mass per land unit than forests.

I think I already mentioned, but a great read for those intersted in the history of hemp is Jack Herer's, "The Emporer Wears No Clothes."

 

[Madrus Rose]

Charges are the same , whether you have pressed bricks of hemp grade MJ or a superstrain indoor grown high grade . Hemp & Marijuana interchangeable names
in the eyes of the law

Hemp originally referred just to the soft strong durable fibre obtained from low THC fibre producing strains but is a "neologism" (say quickly 3 times!) for MJ/Cannabis now .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp

Hemp use dates back to the Stone Age, with hemp fibre imprints found in pottery shards in China and Taiwan[60] over 7,000 years old. They were also later used to make clothes, shoes, ropes, and an early form of paper.[60] Contrary to the traditional view that Cai Lun invented paper in around 105 AD, specimens of hemp paper were found in the Great Wall of China dating back 200 years earlier.[citation needed]