So will all the people who bore us to death with their ‘practical uses of hemp’ nonsense which is a weak attempt to legitimize the cultivation of cannabis. Oops, they planted the ‘wrong kind’ in that 1/4 acre of the farm. Guess it’ll have to be smoked away....
In Smith’s Wealth of Nations, hemp is listed as the number one import from the American colonies at the time of the writing. I’m relatively sure it was not for recreational purposes.
Doesn’t work that way. Hemp in the area is the worst thing that can happen to a marijuana grower, because it cross pollinates with marijuana to make the marijuana much weaker. This is why much marijuana is grown inside.
The first thing a marijuana grower does is to cull all the male plants, because female plants will continue to excrete the resin with its “active ingredients” only until pollinated. So delaying pollination = stronger marijuana.
And both male marijuana and hemp put out a huge amount of pollen contamination. Some years ago, a health food store chain in Tucson set up pollen monitoring stations and provided the data to the local media. By far, throughout the entire year, marijuana pollen was the number one allergen. Finally the city asked them to stop reporting that particular pollen, as it made them look bad.
And this is in an area where there is zero native hemp, so this was just marijuana pollen. Were hemp to be commercially grown there, marijuana would almost have to be grown in an overpressure clean room to escape pollen contamination.