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In reply to the discussion: What are your feelings about industrial hemp? [View all]farminator3000
(2,117 posts)a few miles over the border.
(i pasted this from the legalize+tax weed thread)
(16) The term marihuana means all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of such plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of such plant, its seeds or resin. Such term does not include the mature stalks of such plant, fiber produced from such stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of such plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of such mature stalks (except the resin extracted therefrom), fiber, oil, or cake, or the sterilized seed of such plant which is incapable of germination.
medical and industrial are so far apart genetically- the law ^^^ is kind of f'd up. you can grow hemp with virtually no THC, and the law manages to allow hemp without allowing it to be grown (no LIVE seeds..)
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The results showed three distinct "races" of cannabis. In central Asia the THC-rich indica predominated, while in western Europe sativa was more common. In India, south-east Asia, Africa, Mexico and Jamaica the rasta variant predominated. It looks similar to the sativa subspecies, but generally contains higher levels of THC.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18725175.200-rasta-lends-its-name-to-a-third-type-of-cannabis.html
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Another paper in the series on chemotaxonomic variation in the terpenoid content of the essential oil of Cannabis revealed that several wide-leaflet drug strains in the collection had relatively high levels of certain sesquiterpene alcohols, including guaiol and isomers of eudesmol, that set them apart from the other putative taxa. Hillig concluded that the patterns of genetic, morphological, and chemotaxonomic variation support recognition of C. sativa and C. indica as separate species.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis#Continuing_research
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so, anyway, this is a good one if you haven't seen it-
http://www.jackherer.com/thebook/