HempCyberFarm Answer 18

Answer 18 THC Affects Quality Hemp?

18. Does THC level affect quality of hemp products? (also see No-THC-Hemp)

According to Geof Kime from Hempline, a Hemp pioneering company in Canada*: “The evidence indicates that the level of THC is not related to the yield or quality of the fiber.”

According to Jack Moes*Ph.D. agronomist in Canada: “This hasn't been satisfactorily answered. It's not known how much you'd need. One percent? Fifteen percent? I've heard THC recommended as a bug repellent. Yet anecdotally I know that plants with high THC often have bug problems. It' an overblown kind of belief. Nobody really knows.

According to David Watson, chairman of the IHA during his speech at the Vancouver Hemp Symposium: There is no relation between THC content and yield or quality of the fiber

The only countries HempCyberFarm knows of that can legally grow high-THC crops are... Switzerland and Finland, possibly other countries as well. Who knows! Amazing but true. We haven't come across any studies that were investigating this possible relationship between THC and yield and/or quality of the fiber or bast.

The whole THC issue continues to be a major stumbling block for Industrial-Hemp to become a reality. The stigma that is attached to Hemp goes back to the shape of the leaf and the similar form if not the same form as the Marijuana plant. The stigma of Marijuana is based on rumors, not fact, spread as early as the 1930’s by Randolph W. Hearst through his newspaper empire.

HempCyberFarm wants to enable the cultivation of Industrial-Hemp. Many farmers are interested and need additional crops to grow and rotate these with existing crops to maintain the ecological balance in the soil.

Maybe people in Switzerland can tell us more about their findings. HempCyberFarm has no answer to this question as of yet. But here is the original content of a CyberHempster JeZaBeL’s e-mail:

“Hi there I am down in South Africa, starting to become aware of hemp issues and slowly starting to think towards getting involved in A)getting hemp cultivation legalised here, B) starting a hemp farm ( there are already many highly skilled illegal organic marijuana growers in this part of the world.

One thing I have been told is that the higher the THC content of the plants, the better the quality of crops for all applications : in fact, that really refined products cannot be produced from hemp with low THC. Is there any truth to this? Is it worth trying to aim for legal production of high THC content plants, or doesn't it really make any difference?

Congratulations on your CyberFarm - it's a great idea! I look forward to your reply and to communicating in future.”

Yours JeZaBeL

Please also see No-THC-Hemp!

Do you know more about this? E-mail us at Matthew@HempWorld.com

*This information I found in the article “Hemp Across Canada”from the magazine Cannabis Canada, written by Dana Larsen.

*Industrial-Hemp has no psychoactive properties following definition of the European Economic Community (EEC); THC content is less than 0.3%. In general, low THC-seed varieties without psychoactive properties are those that have a THC content of less than 1%. (See also No-THC Hemp-seed.) THC= Delta-9 TetraHydroCannabinol.