PJ Diaz
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I'm not deliberately missing anything. I'm attempting to be botanically correct. Hemp is Cannabis. Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae.I think ur deliberately missing the point. This field of hemp is legal, if it was Cannabis someone would be in Gaol for a long time.
As i already said, quality CBD breeders like The CBD crew use cannabis strains not Hemp. You can get a higher % of CBD- Think Charlotte's web etc.
There are two different varieties of Hemp: Cannabis Sativa ssp. Sativa (the Narrow leaf variety, which you are likely calling "hemp"), and Cannabis Indica ssp. chinensis (the broad leaf variety, which has a higher cannabiniod content). Cannabis Indica ssp. chinensis is still used for hemp fiber and seed,.
The genetics the CBD crew uses are Hemp hybrids. That's to say a Cannabis Indica ssp. chinensis or Cannabis Sativa ssp. Sativa variety crossed with Cannabis Indica ssp. Indica or Cannabis Indica ssp. afghanica or a hybrid of those.
In fact if you want to think of Charlotte's web, you need to look further back in it's genetic lineage, to Harlequin. Harlequin is one phenotype of a plant bred to produce hashish. The genes are what you might call 75% "sativa" and 25 % "indica". The "Sativas" include an early-1970s Columbian Gold, a Thai from the mountains near Laos, and a Swiss native land race that was bred for consumption of cattle. Guess what kind of Cannabis was cattle feed? Hemp.
At the end of the day, hemp is in the Cannabis family. There's no other way around it.