#5: It's a Hemp Thing

That changed things.
As it turns out there were many of
us that were active in the CBD rich
cannabis space for years prior to the
evolution of the hemp definitions
and regulatory structures. This was
a challenging space to be in as it
was fraught with desperate families,
minimal supply, and incredibly
limited research. Licensed cannabis
businesses traditionally avoided
3 cannabis drug varieties that
only maximize their delta-9 THC
concentration at under 1% AND you
understand the fact that the THC
increases over 0.3% only in the final
stages of maturity when the CBD
is already over 9%, suddenly there
seems to be a clear path to solving
a shortage of a life-saving plant by
simply calling it ‘hemp’, harvesting
it early, and cultivating it by the
Cannabis Botanical
Classifications:
»Cultivars »
»Oil » Seed Cultivars
»Drug » Cultivars (chemotype
classifications below)
* Type 1 – THC dominant
* Type 2 – Balanced THC/CBD
concentrations
* Type 3 – CBD dominant
* Type 4 – Propyl cannabinoid
content (CBDV, THCV, etc.)
products that weren’t intoxicating
in some way (possibly because of the
exorbitant investments necessary
for them to operate), genetics/
cultivars were in very short supply,
and caregivers were (and still are)
limited by plant count restrictions
that were ongoing impediments
to any foreseeable ‘surplus’. BUT,
when you are dealing with type-
acre instead of the thousand watt
lamp.
As of the 2014 season, farmers
in Colorado (and subsequently
Kentucky, Vermont, and Oregon)
have all been producing licensed
crops using cannabinoid rich type-3
drug varieties under industrial hemp
regulations. While there are still U.S.
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