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• Even though hemp and marijuana are both the same species of plant, there are important ways in which they differ. Understanding these can help you navigate the cannabis market. I like to refer to these two cannabis plants as Cousin plants. • In the United States, marijuana is defined as any cannabis sativa plant that has a greater than 0.3 percent THC. THC , short for tetrahydrocannabinol, is the primary psychoactive compound in cannabis. The more THC you consume, the more changes you will notice in your cognition and how you feel. In essence, THC gets you “high”
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• Hemp plants are defined as any cannabis plant that has 0.3 percent or less THC. Even a plant with 0.4 percent THC would be classified as a marijuana plant, in spite of the fact that 0.4 percent isn’t going to have a noticeable psychoactive effect. • There are two types of hemp plants- hemp for oils (cbd, cbg, cbn, etc) and hemp for fiber and grain. • There are various uses for the hemp plant: fiber, paper, textiles, plastics, building supplies (hemp wood and hempcrete), edibles, topicals, spa products, tinctures, vape cartridges, biofuels, animal food and bedding, etc
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