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In reality the main difference is the fact that low THC hemp is grown much more densely than high THC weed. The higher the planting density the lower the THC. Yes there has been some selective breeding to reinforce that, and in some cases even some genetic engineering (a nightmare), but on the whole it is the same plant. So you are partly right, you can’t get high smoking low THC weed, but keep in mind that not all weed grown on an industrial scale is low THC.

The THC content is not uniform through the plant. There is almost no THC in the stalks, little in the seeds, some in the leaves and a good old party sized amount in the buds. Industrial (ie densely grown) weed does not tend to bud up like weed grown for smoking, but I promise you, weed grown for smoking is still grown on a very large scale in some places. Someone after all has to supply the millions of tonnes of pot smoked in Dutch coffee shops every year.

I have seen with my own eyes fields of what I would term “medicinal” weed being harvested. Crews of people pick it by hand and then sit around large tables “nipping”, removing the choicest buds and trimming them back for transport and sale in Holland (and smuggling into the UK). The stalk, and usually the leaf and tip too, are incinerated. This is a crying shame as that’s where some 90% of the carbon in the plant resides. I am very keen to change this practice such that instead of burning off these leftovers they put them to some industrial use. As a bonus they should be eligible to create JI or ETS carbon credits from the change in farming practice.

A field of medicinal weed will sequester around 22 tonnes of carbon dioxide per hectare. A typical crop is grown on 100+ hectare lots in Europe (mostly Switzerland and Hungary), and, using crop rotation to keep the soil nice and fertile you can get two decent dope crops per year (interspersed with some leguminous crop like peas, or companion planted with basil or similar), so that’s a sequestration rate of around 5000 tonnes per year. With credits priced at around €15 – €25 per tonne this represents an additional income to the farmer of around €75,000 – €125,000.

Add to this the high retail value for materials like Hemcrete®, and the farmer is suddenly making another €300k off their plantation. There are thousands of such farmers in Europe alone meaning there is the potential for sequestration of millions of tonnes of CO2. (if you’ve never seen Hemcrete® I recommend it – the Romans used to build with it, it’s light, strong and fire-retardant. Given also that concrete production accounts for some 5% of the world’s carbon emissions it is high time (pardon the pun) something was done about that too).

I think I actually need to address this in a full blog piece on my own blog.

Cheers

Dave

ps: The reason pot is illegal in the USA is nothing to do with any confusion between high and low THC plants, but a confluence of reasons encompassing DuPont’s invention of Nylon, Anslinger’s needing of some new laws to enforce after prohibition, basic racism on the part of William Randolph Hearst and his eagerness to fan the flames to sell papers, and many years of pure profits generated by the arms and ‘defence” industries out of the so called war on drugs.