For the record, this blog can't support widespread growing of industrial cannabis (hemp), especially on tribal lands because it's an invasive species capable of overgrowing native grasses. Even in Canada using home grown seed is illegal. Why anyone would want to buy genetically engineered seed from Bayer Crop Science/Monsanto or some other earth hater every year remains a mystery. This crop is not the benign introduced species it’s cracked up to be and stray pollen from the hemp industry can wreak havoc on growers of therapeutic and “recreational” cannabis.
Pollen from hemp farms can travel for miles, reaching and pollinating marijuana farms. Cross-pollination can drastically lower a marijuana crop’s THC content. That’s the psychoactive compound that hemp plants are bred to keep low. Male plants are the pollinators. Socorro County passed an ordinance banning male hemp plants and non-feminized seeds. [Hemp Pollen Poses Risk To Outdoor Marijuana Crops]
Hemp is open range on meth. Medicine and a
potential revenue source are being put at risk by an experiment that makes Jerusalem artichokes and Belgian endive look like safe investments.
"Today, hemp trades for less than $10 a pound after the supply quadrupled from 2018 to 2019 and became legal under federal law. CJ Murphy of Cannogenics Inc. of Durango, which operates Pharmafields, a hemp farm in La Plata County, said the 12½ acres of fields he had planted in hemp in 2019 will be planted in hay in 2020." [Hemp hits the commodity wall]
ReplyDeletevia Santa Fe Reporter:therapeutic cannabis in New Mexico: 81,771 patients, 9,346 in Santa Fe County, 613 from out-of-state, 589 Texans.
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