# What's the straight dope on "Industrial Hemp"

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 28, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-straight-dope-on-industrial-hemp/811347 "2018-03-28T13:57:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-straight-dope-on-industrial-hemp/811347/21 "2018-03-29T03:25:09Z")

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If you grab a bud and roll it in your palms, hemp will just fall off but smoking marijuana will be sticky … if the smoking marijuana is being actively cultivated, then the plant will have been “topped” creating an more bushy plant with many many flowers … just growing wild either plant will grow tall and straight with just one or two flowers at the top …

Using ditch-weed to camouflage a grow operation would be a bad idea … you’d lose your genetics in one season due to cross-pollination … unless you male for miles around, but that would be far too much work … plus you won’t find large fields of ditch-weed where something else can be grown, like corn or soy beans … you find it in roadside ditches and fence-rows … I’m not saying no one in history ever tried this, but it wouldn’t be effective over the long haul … better to move to California and grow there …

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