On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:04:19 -0500, Elliot Richmond
wrote:

In Kansas, it is called "K" pot. During WW I, Kansas farmers grew
tremendous amounts of hemp for the war effort. Hemp has a small amount
of THC. You have to smoke about a bale to get a buzz. But the hemp
seeds lurk in the soil and K pot sometimes shows up along rural road
sides.

Some time back I heard a story about a local public service group in
that area, possibly the Boy Scouts, got the idea that eliminating all
the "ditchweed" would help in the anti-drug effort. They sent
volunteers down rural roadside ditches to pull out and collect the
stuff for destruction.

They destroyed it by burning it - tons of it. Well, even at a bale a
buzz, they had some buzzing folks running around. This is a story on
the order of an urban legend, still it is funny to contemplate.

On selecting cultivars, though, gardeners have done it for millennia
and that was likely one of the first breakthroughs in the agricultural
revolution. That revolution may have been as much the discovery not
only that you could cultivate plants but that you could selectively
control which variants of the plant you wanted to grow.

Hemp and cannabis are just like tomatoes and broccoli, you select the
type that produces what you want.

Rusty Mase