Hemp Not Weed

[maryjane911]

I was wanting to grow hemp NOT weed and also I live in the UK and want to know the legal status as i know it is illegal in the USA and I think it's legal in canada also i think it could be legal in the E.U but could anyone give me any links that say it is legal:thumbsup:

Thanks:thumbsup:

[Fencewalker]

Looks like you need to apply for a license to grow it.

Hemp is the common name for cannabis and the name most used (in English) when this annual herb is grown for non-drug purposes. These include the industrial purposes for which cultivation licences may be issued in the European Union (EU). When grown for industrial purposes hemp is called, often, industrial hemp, and a common product is fibre for use in a variety of different ways. Fuel is often a by-product of hemp cultivation.

Hemp may be grown also for food (the seed) but in the UK at least (and probably in other EU countries) cultivation licences are not available for this purpose. Within Defra (the UK's Department for the Environment, Food and the Rural Affairs) hemp is treated as purely a non-food crop, despite the fact that seed can and does appear on the UK market as a perfectly legal food product.

In the UK, at least, the seed and fibre have been always perfectly legal products. Cultivation for non drug purposes was however completely prohibited from 1928 until circa 1998, when Home Office industrial-purpose licences became available under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
Legal issues of cannabis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_of_cannabis#United_Kingdom)

[maryjane911]

Welcome to the Yaoh online shop (http://www.yaoh.co.uk/catalog/whole-hemp-seeds-250g-p-56.html?osCsid=463a49a610dc1d18d91922fd43e7212d)

It says on here they can be sprouted also they have no thc in i think also im not on about marijuana,weed,skunk seeds,this is hemp i keep getting links but they are all about actual weed im on about hemp the stuuf that makes rope and paper NOT for smoking and wont give you any buzz so im told

[thebeancounter41]

All weed is hemp and pretty much ALL hemp is weed.Hemp is simply a type of weed with almost no THC.Any marijauna plant can be raised and used as hemp.

[Fencewalker]

My post was concerning industrial hemp, not cannabis. You still need a license from what I have read. Contacting the UK's Department for the Environment, Food and the Rural Affairs or the Home Office would give you a definitive answer. ;)

[maryjane911]

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I'm not on about smoking it, just to grow some for seed and i dont want to smoke any and i just want to know the legal status for this hemp plant i know it is related to cannabis and is in the same family but has non-phycoactive compounds

[maryjane911]

In Wikipedia it says

"If industrial strains of the herb are intended for legal use within the EU then they are bred to be compliant with regulations which limit potential THC content to 0.3%. (THC content is a measure of the herb's drug potential and can reach 20% or more in drug strains). In Canada the THC limit is 1%"

This is the link you gave me and thid has thc in it as hemp doesn't so are you sure this is the riht link??

Thanks:thumbsup:

[Fencewalker]

I know of only one hemp strain (produced in canada) that has 0 percent thc and I'm not sure that is out in the market yet. Hemp is classified as having very low thc. Just as what you quoted, in Canada hemp is classified as having 1% or lower thc. In the UK it is 0.3%.

Yeah, I'm positive I gave you the right link. ;)