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Wasted Weed: Canada’s Disposal of 3.7 Million Pounds of Cannabis Since 2018 Oversupply has been a real issue for the cannabis industry.

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[–] mx_smith@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago (3 children)

So why is their hemp industry not thriving. They should be making fabrics and paper with it.

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I’m fairly certain hemp isn’t made from the flower, which is the part of the plant that is sold for weed consumption.

What they are throwing away is the flower. The part they would use to make hemp is already long gone.

[–] meyotch 4 points 10 months ago

In addition, in order to get useful fibers, plants are sown at a density of at least several hundred seeds per square meter. They stretch to 2-3 meters tall trying to win the race to the sunlight. Stalks of plants grown in the typical indoor grow way are only good as very low grade biomass for methane digestion or as chips that might serve in hemplime or hempcrete. An insignificant market so far as these technologies are still going through the regulatory processes to be used more widely.

There are effective dual cropping systems that can yield cannabinoids from flower and get useful fiber but it is not common yet either.

[–] mx_smith@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m fairly certain that it’s the same plant with less active cannabinoids. The gender doesn’t matter. They can use all of it.

[–] QuinceDaPence@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Them discarding the flower doesn't mean they arent using the hemp part.

I would imagine they seperate those almost immediately if not the moment it's out of the ground. If they're using a combine to harvest it, then that probably seperates it.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They should sell it for biomass fuel. :)

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This just in, huffing your cars exhaust gets you H.I.G.H.

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

This was my first thought, too.

[–] sighofannoyance@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think Hemp is a different species that has low amounts of thc.

[–] OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same species! The line between them is actually pretty blurry and some strains are inbetween. They're just different general 'types' within the same species

[–] optissima@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Different "types" in horticulture are called variants, for future explanation reference.

[–] OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago