Hemp, weed, marijuana, CBD – thanks to a plethora of poetic terms and code words and euphemisms imprinted through pop culture that has lead to these words being used interchangeably.

Are they all similar? Yes, in terms of being the byproducts of Cannabis Sativa, a genus of the Cannabaceae family.

But are they all used in the same way? Not at all.

The major difference comes from the Tetrahydracannabinol (THC) levels & the way they are grown.

When a plant contains less than 0.3% THC, you make cookies out of it, and you can wear clothes of it, and it is legitimate. It will not make you high

The THC levels of 0.3% or higher was proposed in 1979 in the book “The Species Problem in Cannabis: Science & Semantics”.

The author stated that it’s difficult to distinguish hemp and marijuana, as there is no taxonomical difference between the two. 

This number was proposed as the solution to distinguish between hemp and marijuana, and this number is now used in the legal definition of hemp in the Agricultural Act of 2018 in the United States.