Strains that have been selected and bred for recreational use (getting high, achieving altered states that are often enlightening) or plants bred for THC based therapy. These varieties or cultivars have up to 20% by weight THC, and are not suitable or practical as industrial hemp is, which is unmatched as a useful plant to us, a sustainable resource, an invaluable plant to our human survival experience.

The best industrial hemp will have insignificant amounts of THC. It will not get anyone “stoned.” The plants are lanky and the flowering tops which would normally contain the highest percentages of THC are sparse, paltry, like a head on a pin. This is the polar opposite of marijuana flowers as they appear on psychoactive cannabis, pot, sinsemilla.

But industrial hemp does contain significant amounts of CBD, which has been scientifically demonstrated in numerous recent studies, to have a beneficial effect on immune function, as well as muscular and peripheral nervous system function, and also digestive function.

When petroleum disappears, and it will, because it is a finite and over-used resource that takes million years of geological processes to make (cannot be made by man), there will be a crisis. It’s looming on the horizon as you notice that people talk about being “green” and liberating ourselves from the oil cartel, nothing is really being done. The gamblers on wall street are frothing at the mouth at the coming crisis. Prohibition which was ended by the 18th amendment (alcohol) made a lot of money for bootleggers. Prohibition today, CSA/DEA/FDA/corporate special interests (mostly pot) is making people in petrochemical and energy, very wealthy.

The coming energy crisis will surprise only the gullible and non-observant. Expect rampant price-gouging and panic. When hemp has been demonstrated already as a strong candidate as an alternative, to refined resources from thepetrochemical monster

This is just like the “arms race” created obscenely wealthy weaponsmakers who schemed with their employee Reagan to spout nonsense, a sham excuse of mutually-assured-destruction, tens of thousands of nukes, costing billions each at taxpayer cost, when even though 10 nukes is enough to cover the skies and freeze the world in nuclear winter.

By the way, on a different note, I’ve been asking various people around my state (Virginia) about how they feel about legalizing marijuana for medical/recreational purposes. These people include those who work in fast food, grocery stores, general merchandise stores, gyms, are out walking their dogs, etc…. All sexes, ages, and nationalities, with only one exception told me marijuana should be legal. The one exception was a clerk at a chain store who expressed concern for those who make their living selling marijuana illegally and would have their profits disrupted! It truly seems that the only people against it are our elected officials and law enforcement.

And even then,,they are attempting to keep marijuana fear at a level to keep outdoor grows illegal,,thus continuing the hemp prohibition.

Yes, it’s incredible BS, but it passes as the law of the land.

none. There was a dumbass redneck politician who said to his partners in conspiracy one day “Damn shit looks just like the real thing, Verne. Good way to hide the real thing. That’s it, then, Verne. Make hemp illegal too.It’ll give us sumpin’ else to blame on them neeegers.”