Good morning
@weedtech
Anyone want to help me come up with a name to describe this variety of cannabis?!
I completely agree. I'll elaborate on what I consider 'hemp.' I've been in the hemp industry for a few years now and I sometimes forget about the original feelings and thoughts that are evoked when the word hemp is used, and even how my own perceptions have changed over time. Let's talk about definitions.
As far as the Federal Gov is concerned, "The 2018 Farm Bill defines hemp as the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of the plant with a delta-9 THC concentration of not more than 0.3 percent by dry weight."
Generally speaking, modern hemp can be split into two categories, 'High CBD' and 'Industrial,' though they're both 'Industrial.' When I think of Industrial Hemp, I think tall skinny fiber varieties that are made for rope, textiles, fuel, insulation, construction materials, grain, and was used as currency by Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers! ha ha. If I had to guess I'd say only in the last 15 years or so, have High CBD strains achieved the .3% THC threshold.
These cultivars are essentially High CBD Marijuana strains that have been crossed with hemp varieties until a stable line of .3% THC has been achieved,
all so that it can fit the Federal definition! Modern smokable hemp has less to do with taxonomy and more to do with selective breeding in order to be legally compliant. You could argue that modern Smokable Hemp has primarily Marijuana lineage, where the THC has been bred out it. The
terpenes, trichomes and nose are almost on par with MJ, and it's only a matter years before they're equals. The breeding going on is incredible.
So
@weedtech, you're right, hemp needs to be rehabilitated and it has been and is currently undergoing rehabilitation. Due to legal necessity, that rehabilitation is giving birth to something entirely new and it makes me so excited. It's not quite Marijuana and it's not quite traditional hemp either, and calling it High CBD Hemp, isn't so great either. So what should we call it? How do we market it?? I'm open to any suggestion. This question has bothered me for years. If I had to guess what's going to happen, people are still going to call it hemp and a new definition and new feelings around the word will gradually emerge.
You know that old adage, if it looks like a llama, smells like a llama and spits llama, it's probably and alpaca? If it looks like marijuana, smells like marijuana, it could very well be 'hemp.'