Hemp may help prevent Covid from entering human cells

[Ninurta]

I used last year hemp capsules, i believe it's good for health .....but it was too expensive and stopped buying it. 

Why hemp products cost so much ?  The products i am interested wont give you feeling of being high, only help health, but too expensive  now for me .

The market will charge whatever it finds that the average customer will pay. In order to force the prices down, a critical mass of people have to say, at the same time, "I ain't paying that much for that crap!". Then the vendors find themselves stuck with an overage of stock that they cannot sell, and so have to drop prices to a reasonable level to move what they are stuck with.

When I was a teenager, hemp went for between 20 and 40 dollars an ounce. That was factoring in all the producers, smugglers, and drug cartel cuts that had to be paid out, and they all still made a tidy profit. Now it sells for between 300 and 800 dollars for that same ounce. They found out that people would pay that for it, and so now they make an even tidier profit.

Now to be fair, when I was a teenager, cannabis had only 2% to 4% THC content, and we were happy with that. Now it pushes 14% up to near 30% THC content, so there IS that to factor in. No damned wonder so many folks get couch-locked with it now!

That Carmagnola I have seed for has about a 14% CBD content, but a very low THC content, which makes it legal to grow. Federal law requires a THC content of less than 0.3% to grow legally and classify a cannabis plant as "hemp" rather than "marijuana". Same plant either way, it's just the THC content of any given plant that makes it "legal" or "illegal" here. That's why they are looking for people here to grow it commercially, and are getting so few takers - if a crop tests out at 0.4% THC or higher, the entire crop has to be destroyed, and that farmer takes a huge loss for the year. Who the hell wants to gamble their lives on that? At least when we were growing tobacco, the market was a bit more stable and less subject to the whims of a bureaucrat.

Oddly, when the state of Virginia made it legal to grow for personal use, they did not specify the THC content limits for state law, so it's the feds who will raid your crop if it goes over the THC content  limit. The state has other traps set than THC content. The first trap is that, while it's legal to grow up to 4 plants for personal use, it's illegal to obtain the seed to grow it, so a single plant currently proves that a law was broken, even though that plant itself is not illegal.

The second trap is possession limits. Up to an once is decriminalized, more or less "legal" with no risk of prosecution. 1.1 ounces to a pound is a misdemeanor, but anything over a pound is a felony. All for the SAME substance. One single plant can produce 2 to 4 pounds, so the legal 4 plants for personal use may produce anywhere from 8 to 16 pounds total - but remember, possession of anything over ONE pound is a felony! Possession of the proceeds from ONE legally grown plant, much less 4, can land you in the klink.

You can now legally give it away, but you cannot legally sell it. The entire body of law in the matter is utterly arbitrary, and there is no direction to go that does not have pitfalls set. So I can't imagine they'll find very many farmers here eager to convert their corn fields to hemp fields. Sure, you stand to make a lot of money out of it, but you also stand to lose your ass if it tests over the limits, or spend a lot of prison time if the DA takes a dislike to you and wants to put you away for what you thought was legal.

It's a Hobbs' Choice, and anyone would HAVE to be stoned to opt in to playing their game!

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