{"id":2396,"date":"2018-12-12T00:17:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T00:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2018-12-12T00:17:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T00:17:04","slug":"hemp-is-legal-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2396","title":{"rendered":"Hemp is legal in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hemp is cannabis, the same plant that we argue about called marijuana.  Like all plants, in various degrees, cannabis has a rich enough genome to adapt to different environments.<\/p>\n<p>The Farm Bill legalizes hemp throughout the US, provided it contains less than .3% THC.  That makes it a shitty smoke, but it&#8217;s great for seed oil and fiber.  When it was made illegal in the 70&#8217;s along with it&#8217;s cousin marijuana, the production and marketing facilities dried up, which have to be re-created for it to viable again.  That will be tough, as replacements are now readily available.<\/p>\n<p>The significance of this bill is that the US Government has finally acknowledged cannabis as a useful plant, and has created the language to deal with it.  Now it can debate laws about it.  But I still don&#8217;t see why we have to debate laws for a plant.<\/p>\n<p>The immediate impact is going to be a plethora of scams involving hemp-derived oils and CBD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hemp is cannabis, the same plant that we argue about called marijuana. Like all plants, in various degrees, cannabis has a rich enough genome to adapt to different environments. The Farm Bill legalizes hemp throughout the US, provided it contains less than .3% THC. That makes it a shitty smoke, but it&#8217;s great for seed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}