Re:The Race to Relearn Hemp Farming
by eddieone on Saturday January 12, 2019 @12:44AM
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The hemp flowers are good, cbd is interesting. We did a small experiment using hemp as replacement for tobacco. There is very little psychoactive components. The difference is that it smokes like a dream. When the user runs out though, tobacco cravings come back full swing. It could become a good harm reduction technique for tobacco/vaping users. Still the production is just starting in my state, so it's rare and expensive.
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Breathing a different kind of smoke and hoping it will reduce harm seems a bit bizarre. Smoke particles are dangerous whatever you burned to get them, right?
I guess it wouldn't have the addictive qualities of nicotine, but addiction means people wouldn't switch away in the first place.
There is at least some preliminary evidence that smoke from the cannabis/hemp flower is less toxic than commercial tobacco smoke (much of which may be due to the fact that people usually smoke far less mass of the former)-- heavy marijuana users do not seem to have the same sort of cancer risk spike as heavy cigarette smokers.
Re:The Race to Relearn Hemp Farming
by paradoxparalax on Saturday January 12, 2019 @02:09AM
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As a decades veteran smoker of tobacco and weed and Wild Hemp without buds, only leaves and seeds that can be found around The Great Wall of China, I can see Hemp replacing Weed or at least softening the Carving, but I can not see how it could effectively help to quit tobacco, in my experience.