HEMP and CANNABIS🌿
Both come from the same plant Cannabis Sativa...Hemp and Cannabis or Marijuana are common names of two plants with a confused history. Many people, even with access to a wealth of information, confuse them and think they are vastly different (they are not)...
Both come from the same plant Cannabis Sativa...Hemp and Cannabis or Marijuana are common names of two plants with a confused history. Many people, even with access to a wealth of information, confuse them and think they are vastly different (they are not)...
This misunderstanding allows people in power to manipulate public perception, laws and regulations...The only difference between them is their use: The term ‘hemp’ commonly refers to the industrial/commercial use of the cannabis stalk...
...and seed for textiles, foods, clothes, papers, body care products, detergents, plastics and building materials...The term ‘marijuana’ or ‘cannabis’ refers to the medicinal, recreational or spiritual use involving the smoking of cannabis flowers....
Industrial hemp contains only about 0.3% to 1.5% THC (Tetrahydrocannabinoids, the intoxicating ingredients that make you high) while marijuana contains about 5% to 10% or more THC..Hemp fiber is the longest, strongest and most durable of all natural fibers....
Also, hemp cultivation requires no chemicals, pesticides or herbicides.
Grown in rotation with other crops such as corn and legumes, hemp farming is completely sustainable. Hemp produces four times as much fibre per acre as pine trees....
Grown in rotation with other crops such as corn and legumes, hemp farming is completely sustainable. Hemp produces four times as much fibre per acre as pine trees....
Hemp tree-free paper can be recycled up to seven times, compared with three times for pine-pulp based papers. Hemp is easy to grow, and actually conditions soil where it grows....
The seed and seed-oil are high in protein, essential fatty and amino acids as omega's 3, 6, 9 and vitamins, Hemp is renewable and don't need to be genetically modified because it's natural pest resistant...
Hemp would be an ideal source of biomass for fuel, and hemp Ethanol burns very cleanly...Hemp and humanity have been linked for over 10,000 years. Hemp was first agricultural crop, and remained the planet’s largest crop and most important industry until late last century....
Most of the non-Western world never stopped growing hemp, and today hemp for commercial use is grown mostly by China, Hungary, England, Canada, Australia, France, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, India and throughout Asia...🌱
