What's the difference between Hemp and Marijuana?  I never quite understood it.  Give a thorough answer!!!
967641
Marijuana is the leaves some smoke to get their high, Hemp is the strands of fiber some get from the same plant and others of the same genus to make ropes, paper, and a myriad of other products that some people find helpful in their daily lives.
1011011
God made marijuana. It existed before man...and before man wrote the bible. It is a herb.
841363
The government could care less. It's the corporations. And it's not the pot, it's the hemp that they have to keep illegal. It would replace too many poisonous things that they sell. Companies like Monsanto. Those are the kinds of companies that lobbied to make it illegal, many decades ago. Example. The first American battle ship was made of 85% hemp. Do a search and see how it use to be the main stay for the entire planet.
177090
In the reference I found they kept referring to both terms without explainging the difference.\n\nI spent some time trying to figure it out but its beyond me. \n\n Even though it means losing 3 points its better to delete this question and consider reposting it with different wording than give the points to someone who does not answer it.
669796
cant help on the effects part..but here is a link about marijuana and cancer (may pad your report a lil ;-)\n\nhttp://www.sierratimes.com/03/11/07/article_kubby.htm
255104
Resources on the species of marijuana\n\nHope this helps.
251606
theres a lots of words report on Marijuana \n\n\n Street terms for marijuana: grass, pot, weed, bud, Mary Jane, dope, indo, hydro1\n\nWhat does marijuana look like?\n\nA green, brown, or gray mixture of dried, shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of the hemp plant. ("Cannabis" refers to marijuana and other drugs made from the same plant.) \nOther forms, less common in the United States, are hashish and hashish oil. \nWhat are the methods of usage?\n\nMarijuana is usually smoked as a cigarette (called a joint) or in a pipe or bong. \nWhat are some consequences of marijuana use?\n\nMay cause frequent respiratory infections, impaired memory and learning, increased heart rate, anxiety, panic attacks, tolerance, and physical dependence.2 \nUse of marijuana during the first month of breast-feeding can impair infant motor development.3 \nChronic smokers may have many of the same respiratory problems as tobacco smokers including daily cough and phlegm, chronic bronchitis symptoms, frequent chest colds; chronic abuse can also lead to abnormal functioning of lung tissues.4 \nA study of college students has shown that skills related to attention, memory, and learning are impaired among people who use marijuana heavily, even after discontinuing its use for at least 24 hours.5 \nWho uses marijuana?\n\nMarijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug. \nAt least one-third of Americans have used marijuana sometime in their lives.6 \nHow does marijuana get to the United States?\n\nMarijuana produced in Mexico and smuggled into the U.S. remains the most widely available. \nHigh-potency marijuana also enters the U.S. drug market from Canada. \nU.S. drug law enforcement reporting suggests increased availability of domestically grown marijuana.7 \nThe availability of marijuana from Southeast Asia generally is limited to the West Coast. \nHow much does marijuana cost?\n\nPrices for commercial-grade marijuana have remained relatively stable over the past decade, ranging from approximately $400 to $1,000 per pound in U.S. Southwest border areas to between $700 to $2000 per pound in the Midwest and northeastern United States. \nThe national price range for sinsemilla, a higher quality marijuana usually grown domestically, is between $900 and $6,000 per pound
586211
You will find most of your answers here:\n\nhttp://www.thehia.org/facts.html\n\n2) Presidents Washington and Jefferson both grew hemp. Americans were legally bound to grow hemp during the Colonial Era and Early Republic. The federal government subsidized hemp during the Second World War and U.S. farmers grew about a million acres of hemp as part of that program.
171554
You can't "manufacture" marijuana. Manufacturing is where you take raw materials and convert them into a product through mechanical or chemical means. Pot has to be cultivated, which means it has to be grown and then collected in order to get "the bud"
460828
Actually, there are other alternatives.  And they do work.  Hemp is one of these.  But Bush has a lots of money tied up in oil.  So he discontinued the project.  And to make sure that it wasn't;t refined, he also shut down the hemp farms.
45299
the one with red hairs and crystals is the chronic. the real sticky icky icky as my man snoop would say. Some people refer to it as the "female" plant. I dont know why Ive only heard it from a bunch of potheads whom I hang out with. aand none of them are laced with meth,it only means that its gonna run you a bit more for a quarter, but worth it
1105121
Marijuana DOES have medicinal purposes. My Mom hasn't had any complications from her liver disease from it, my Dad uses it for help with his glaucoma and my boyfriend and I both use it to help us with our chronic migraines. We don't smoke it just to feel good, but to help us because we have health problems that only marijuana can treat. That is just a stupid rumor: it is not a gateway drug. My Mom has been smoking it for 30 years and never had the temptation to use ANY other kind of drug. My Dad, boyfriend and I haven't done any other kinds of drugs either. It's a scientific fact that tetrahydracannibonol, (THC) the resin crystals on the leaf base and buds at the peak of blooming that gets you high when smoked, really does have medicinal purposes. I don't think it should be legalized to the general public, but only made available to those who need it for their ailments, like the laws already in California and Oregon. And I have never in all my life have ever heard  a story about any REAL person that died because of marijuana, and neither has my Dad, and he was a teenager in the 60's. My Mom grew up in the 70's. My boyfriend may be 20, and I'm only 17, but I am positive that I will never try another drug, and so is my boyfriend.
1180270
Hemp is a energy crop. This means that it isn't a fuel itself, but is good for making energy products. \n\nThe better of Industrial Hemp seed lines produce as much seed as corn by dry weight. Industrial Hemp can produce more cellulose than corn can hope to. It is in the range of crops grown for cellulose. All of those crops can reach above 10 tons an acre per 4 month growing season under the correct conditions. Cellulose can be used for ethanol, biodiesel, coal replacement, etc.  \n\nIn that respect it isn't better than other crops. It is much the same as most good types of energy crops. They all have their ups and downs. However among energy crops, hemp is the only one that has 10,000 plus current other uses.\n\nAs to what is the best solution. \n\nButanol is the most ideal. It is almost as powerful as today's petro fuels, and it can be used in direct replacement of all current gasoline engines. The downside is that it lacks a biofuel industry to make it. There is only one company that is building a pilot production facility. The current butanol industry reforms it from petroleum. In a dozen year I hope this will change greatly as there is much interest in this.      \nYou will have to check out http://www.butanol.com/ for info. \n\nEthanol is plausible. Unfortunately the oil industry has done its best to turn public opinion against ethanol and is succeeding. Because of that I doubt the industry will ever reach the levels needed to replace gasoline. It is possible however.
805248
haha, i think weeds better than booze, worst thing yo do stoned is want to eat the wallpaper... just kidding... some pot is far mor potent than other, but basicly you fell mellow, almost like before you goto sleep at night, or like when youve had your 3rd beer... just mellow.. till you get the munchies....oh NEVER go shopping when stoned!!  im sooo serious
619372
This is more of a morals question.  Since the cocaine is more valuable than anything else, why would anyone grow it for any other reason.  With hemp, there is work to make the plants low THC, so they could have another use.  Some web sites to consider:\n\nhttp://www.siu.edu/~ebl/leaflets/coca.htm\n\nhttp://www.cocamuseum.com/htm/historycoca.htm
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"Making Marijuana against the law is like saying God made a mistake"\n-Bill Hicks\n\n\nit's only illegal because the government doesn't have the control over it like they do on every other substance that is legal.\nAlcohol is much worse for you than marijuana, yet it's legal. you do the math.\nIt has nothing to do with the harm that marijuana may have, yet that is what all the propaganda is based on.  Otherwise, how would you have propaganda being at all useful if it was just simply "the government cant control it, so don't use it". No, they want to lie and preach that it's actually harmful to you. That's the only way they get it to stay illegal, too many people think it's actually harmful so there's not enough to overturn the rule.\n\nIt's also not a matter of IF it can harm you at all. You can get harmed by anything taken beyond moderation. The fact is it has less harm than something that is legal. Therefore being nothing short of total hypocrisy and lies by the government.\n\nP.S.\nI'm not a pothead or a hippy, etc.. I don't use it and I never have. I know enough people and have seen enough information that I don't need to be a pothead to have a strong view on the matter.
1021124
She IS the lady who fights for trees, right? If so, I greatly admire her. I've been accused of hugging a few trees myself!\nWe MUST do something about deforestation. Of course, the need to harvest trees for paper production could be alleviated if we properly reclassified industrial hemp as a separate plant from marijuana (which it is) and began growing hemp for paper, clothing, food, etc...\nIndustrial hemp is not marijuana and should not be illegal. Think of the trees we could save and the business and jobs that could be gained!