One reason for that is the hassle of having to
buy it from Canada. But it goes deeper.
“They have been scared all of their life
thinking that this is marijuana and it’s not,”
Lee said. “There is a difference.”
Smoking marijuana will make the user
intoxicated and smoking hemp will not,
according to the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Service’s Administration’s National
Clearinghouse for alcohol and drug
information.
Hemp contains less than one percent of the
active ingredient THC, the substance that
gives marijuana smokers a high. Marijuana
plants contain 10 to 20 percent THC.
Marijuana plants and hemp plants have
different appearances and are harvested
differently.
Marijuana plants tend to be short and bushy
while hemp plants can have stalks that are 25
feet high.
Currently, hemp is grown in Canada, China,
Russia, Hungary, Germany, the Netherlands,
France, Spain, England, Poland and many
other eastern European countries.
It continues to be an illegal crop in the United
States but that will eventually change,
according to Lee.
“Maybe not in my lifetime but in our
children’s lifetime,” he said.
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Personal Story
Punkin’s Story (Adenocarcinoma)
He's a big boy at over 18 pounds, so I started
with a hefty pin-head sized dot of oil in .3ml
of melted coconut oil that I split in half and
administered both in his ear and orally in
equal amounts.
My 9+ year old cat, Punkin, was diagnosed
with Adenocarcinoma in his left ear canal on
June 26, 2016.
Our vet sent us to the MSU vet school where
they intended to do a biopsy, but ended up
removing the majority of the mass.
When we got the call with his results a week
later, the doctors were confident the tumour
would return quickly and aggressively.
We were told to expect he may live 4-8
months without extensive, very invasive
surgery.
After giving him a month to heal from his
surgery, I came up with a cannabis oil
regimen and began his treatment.
Initially, it was twice a day and I very
gradually increased the size of the dot of
cannabis oil. By the second week, he had
stopped shaking his head (his only observed
symptom) and I was very encouraged.
Punkin, however, was not thrilled with being
restrained and subjected to such an
objectionable protocol, but we kept it up
through the summer and brought Punkin with
us when we travelled each weekend, so we
wouldn't interrupt his treatment.
By Halloween 2016, I started tapering down
his dose gradually, until he was on a weekly
maintenance dose of cannabis oil...a dot the
size of a 1/2 grain of rice.
This has gone from what was surely going to
be quickly terminal, to what I think of as a
chronic, treatable illness. I'm so glad to still
enjoy this special guy far longer than anyone
thought.