Feral Hemp Patch with Dr. Dave West

Near Fremont, Nebraska last October, I visited a feral Cannabis Hemp patch with plant breeder Dave West, PhD. Ripe with bowing seed heads, the colors and aromas were enchanting. Dr. Dave points out that the states of Kansas and Nebraska have encouraged farmers to let feral hemp go to seed, as pheasants depend on the tall hemp seedheads sticking out of the snow to make it through the long winters.
Dr. Dave goes on to recount the history of the hemp industry in Nebraska, from the introduction of hemp farming to the Native Americans on reservations to the later introduction of Kentucky hemp. For much more, visit Dr. Dave's Hemp Archives:
http://www.gametec.com/hemp/archives.html

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[inferkn0w]

PhD? They are Natives, not Indians. As for as his explaination of the hemp industry, no mention of the gulf, the carolinas, virginia, kentucky, the midwest? No mention of it's utilization during and before WWll. It was ACTUALLY in the early 1600's that Virginia passed an Act requiring all planters in Virginia to sow both English and Indian hemp. The NATIVES had been using hemp long before the--believe it or not--Puritans in 1645. This video is somewhat misleading, but the footage is good.

[cannabistv]

Respectfully, many Native Americans use the word "Indian", partly due to the Spanish derivation, "In Dios" - "People of God".

Dr. Dave does refer to KY and midwest roots of American hemp varieties, to which he limited his talk.

[honeybees1]

Geat job.

[TerrierBram]

Cannabis sustains life, another proof.

[brianranzoni]

@TheUnknownGrower Okay, I see what you are getting at.

[TheUnknownGrower]

@brianranzoni you need to grow them sensimilla to get 5 %thc...but its possible after selective breeding for resin and high.remember they didnt grow no thc hemp back then ...hemp always has some thc content naturally

[brianranzoni]

@TheUnknownGrower If it has crossbred or mutated in the wild, then yes I can see it having elevated THC. I understand that the tendency of a feral line is to diverge from some of the traits used for textile crops. But I've not heard about feral textile lines having nearly as much as 5 percent. More like 1 to 3, and continuing to have a higher CBD count than flat-out narcotic lines.

[madblunted]

keep the purple one! lol

[TheUnknownGrower]

@MAGTRAIN the terpenes get you high tooo...aroma therapie

[TheUnknownGrower]

@brianranzoni degenerated hemp has up to 5 percent thc.you CAN get high...or make oil or hash with it.

[brianranzoni]

@thedirtynasty No, you cannot get high at all, let alone very high. American hemp is cultivated from strains of C. sativa L sativa, var. sativa, specially bred for industrial feedstock and biomass. Not only do the drug bearing parts of the plant contain less than 0.5% THC--sometimes less than 0.05%--but concentrations of CBD cannabinoids work against the psychoactive components. Real marijuana--C. sativa indica-- has 3% or higher concentrations of THC with low CBD.

[murphyparkus]

HEMP is a food that only rich people can afford to eat and drink. BBQ with hemp oil, hot hemp tea. Because of hemp being illegal we became abusive toward what it suppose to be natural food.

[casinthecity]

are you kidding me.. big ass weed plants just growing around outside without people running up on those with shears... lucky i dont know that area

[MAGTRAIN]

he starts to sound stoned at 6 minutes in, lol