Since Hemp (Hemp) can be legally grown in the United States, there have been several cases of American police officers who mistook hemp for stealing marijuana. The latest one is last month (2019.11.5) New York police detained 106 pounds of hemp, thought is marijuana also shut people up, later after the laboratory test to determine the hemp, the buyer of two brothers were acquitted but bought hemp has been confiscated, now the two brothers decided to the New York police 10 million dollars!

In order to study this problem, I climbed a lot of articles and turned over a lot of books, and finally personally asked a few people who are in planting hemp, just surprised... wow!I just opened a can of worms. It means that I'm really making trouble for myself, trying to help you solve a problem, but I might make it more complicated.

After I read my history of why marijuana was stigmatized, I learned why the federal government has listed hemp as level one for the past 80 years. One of the main government failures is that the two plants are very difficult to tell. Harry Anslinger was all thinking about how to turn marijuana into what people say, but if hemp is legal and hemp is illegal, the government is really difficult to catch people, it will not be easy to catch people using marijuana, and hemp farmers will be caught by mistake. Instead of wasting time thinking about how to distinguish hemp from hemp, as long as the plants in cannabis are into the palace, the innocent hemp that are of much value to human beings are dragged into the water.

Those who have read about biology will know the biological classification of the Linnaeus system . There are seven layers of plants, they are: kingdom, phylum , class , order , family , genus , species . Cannabis , commonly known as cannabis, is a genus of the family Cannabinaceae. The number of species within this genus is about 1 to 3 species. The more common theory is divided into three species: Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, and Cannabis ruderalis.

Sativa, Indica, Ruderalis

Did you start feeling dizzy now? It doesn't matter. I was the one who failed in biology before. Simply put, the genus Cannabis is divided into three species (sativa, indica, and ruderalis), just as humans are divided into three species: high, medium, and short.

In addition to the height, the leaves of these three species are also different, and the environment is also different.

Sativa Tall and thin in appearance, long and narrow leaves, suitable for outdoor warm environment growth. Indica Relatively low fat, leaves are also wide wide fat fat, because it is not high so more suitable for indoor growth. And Ruderalis is smaller, a bit like a small shrub, he is unpopular because of low THC.

Lin you talk so much, haven't told me in the end which kind of hemp points?

Everyone's mind of hemp (industrial hemp) should grow high like bamboo, after all, hemp fiber is used to make rope, linen, paper and so on... yes! Hemp is the "mupot" in Sativa! Why the variation? Because other cannabis sativa contain more THC, we call those marijuana. And hemp contains a very small amount of THC and a lot of CBD, so we call these hemp.

Marijuana vs. Hemp

So for the same sativa species , how to tell who is hemp and who is hemp? It can generally be distinguished from any of three points: gene, appearance, and cultivation environment.

Good abstract oh! For example, even if you do not look like Taiwan people, you do not grow up in Taiwan, but as long as you have the genes of Taiwan people, you can say that you are Taiwan Lang!

First: Genetics

Marijuana Usually contains 5~20% THC, and of course they also have higher THC. The Marijuana THC is mostly in the bud. Conversely, the hemp usually has less than 1% THC, so it never gives you a high euphoria. In fact, in the United States, less than 0.3% of the hemp rules can be called hemp, and higher than 0.3% are called marijauna.

So as you can know from here, the hemp and hemp rules are actually stipulated by the law. Many hemp farmers actually have to test the THC concentration of their plants every week, because you may have had 0.29% THC hemp last week, which turns it has 0.31% THC marijuana.

How does this strange rule of 0.3% THC come about? There was a Canadian scientist called Dr. When Ernest Small published his report on the botany of hemp in 1971 and 1976, he admitted that he could not completely distinguish the difference between hemp and hemp, so he decided to divide a line with 0.3% THC. That number has been used until now, and no one knows how to fix it.

In recent years, it is more difficult to distinguish, because now there are more and more crosses between marijuana and hemp, and sativa, indica and ruderalis also cross into hybrid species. Many look alike, and can only be determined by laboratory tests of THC concentration.

Second: Appearance

Although it is increasingly difficult to distinguish, some of the more obvious can be distinguished by the naked eye. Usually if you see that tall, strong seed, it must be hemp (industrial hemp). Some hemp can grow to 16 to 20 feet, the stem is also very thick, and the periphery of the stem contains high fiber for clothing materials.

Hemp

Marijuana

Compared with the tall and thin hemp (hemp), most hemp (marijuana) is still relatively short, fat and short. Cannabis (marijuana) usually has more branches and can open more flowers.

Third: Cultivation environment

Many industrial hemp fields often look like wheat fields and corn fields, and each field is very large. Very good for planting, suitable for many climates, and does not require much time to care for. Marijuana, on the other hand, requires careful, warm, humid conditions, so a lot of electricity and water are often grown in American cities.

conclusion

Although it seems easy to tell from the traditional appearance, hemp is tall and thin, but is hemp short and fat? That was before, and now it's getting harder and harder to tell. Especially after the leaves leave only cannabinoids .

A friend who specializes in growing hemp told me that most of the hemp farm used to make CBD are now taking care of hemp as hemp, which is also a short fat fat, open flowers as beautiful as hemp and contain a lot of tree resin. The common idea was that a hemp must be a sativa. But in recent years after various hybridization, cultivation skills more and more progress, there are also indica kinds of hemp. That means you can buy beautiful flowers that look as fat as indica and have no sticky resin but only contain CBD.

Can you see what the flower it is?

This is really just a hemp flower oh oh!

Now if you want to buy mahua or Hanhua please obtain the inspection report (COA, certificate of analysis), because the naked eye has been difficult to distinguish.