Cannabis Oil vs Hemp Oil

Hello,

Yesterday we learned to “start low and go slow” when it
comes to CBD dosing.

Today we’ll talk about Cannabis vs. hemp oil.

In the world of botany, there are basically two kinds of
cannabis: hemp plants and drug plants.

Hemp is cannabis grown for fiber and/or seed oil.

Drug plants include THC-rich (intoxicating) plants and CBD-rich
(non-intoxicating) plants. You may also have heard the THC-rich
plants referred to as marijuana or weed, especially if you’re
talking about the flower tops of the plant.

The main difference between these two types is the resin content.

Industrial hemp plants are low resin. By law, they must contain
less than 0.3 percent THC. Drug plants are high resin.

Industrial varieties are usually grown from seed and yield as
many as one hundred tall bamboo-like plants per square meter.

They have skimpy foliage and are manufactured into many different
products (like paper, cloth, and edible oil).

Drug plants, on the other hand, are usually grown from asexually
reproduced clones. They generally yield one to two bushy plants
per square meter. They’re hand-harvested, dried, trimmed, and cured.

The flowers are then consumed for either their intoxicating or
medicinal effects.

In the two-sentence definition of “marijuana” from the 1970
Controlled Substances Act, the word “resin” was mentioned many
times. That’s because it’s all about how much the plant has.

In essence, the Controlled Substance Act asserts that certain
parts of the cannabis plant are exempt from the legal definition
of marijuana. It’s the sticky resin (and its derivatives) in the
flowers and leaves which were explicitly forbidden.

This should make it clear that hemp seed oil is not the same as
CBD-rich oil extracted from the flowers and leaves of the cannabis
plant.

Oil pressed from hemp seeds has no CBD, no THC, no cannabinoids
to speak of.

It’s great for making varnish, paint, soap, food supplements, and
other products, though. To get CBD, however, you must turn to the
flowers and leaves of the plant.

Tomorrow, we’ll look at “pure” CBD and see if it’s better than
full-spectrum CBD.

Until then,

🐷 WUPPLES®

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