10-15-2020, 12:48 AM
Real-Life stuff:
Well, from what I remember from a very short Q&A during a botanical excursion*, the Hemp used by the textile industry is a kind that grows taller but has a THC content too low for other uses, and higher levels of CBD which inhibits the "oohh I'm high" feeling of cannabis. The seeds of that kind of hemp are even edible but there are usually some pretty strict laws regulating the THC% allowed in them. It's basically limited to textiles and niche market in the food industry.
The ones grown for recreational or medical use can also belong to several varieties, but in each case basically the whole plant can get used in some form to produce drugs. Flowers, leaves, stalk, seeds, they can all get transformed by a bunch of different processing, from drying and crushing to pressing or even chemical extraction. There's basically nothing left over, only residues that have no commercial interest.
*Hemp is also used as a decorative plant. It's sometimes used on roundabouts in the area (which is where we spotted it and started asking questions), and it's not rare to read in the newspaper that people harvested that hemp thinking they were stealing cannabis...
In the mod:
We have Hemp grown in fields to be used by the textile industry, and Kralyerg's mod adds the trading of the drug, but from what I remember it's independent from the textile industry, so it reflects the real life situation pretty well.
Well, from what I remember from a very short Q&A during a botanical excursion*, the Hemp used by the textile industry is a kind that grows taller but has a THC content too low for other uses, and higher levels of CBD which inhibits the "oohh I'm high" feeling of cannabis. The seeds of that kind of hemp are even edible but there are usually some pretty strict laws regulating the THC% allowed in them. It's basically limited to textiles and niche market in the food industry.
The ones grown for recreational or medical use can also belong to several varieties, but in each case basically the whole plant can get used in some form to produce drugs. Flowers, leaves, stalk, seeds, they can all get transformed by a bunch of different processing, from drying and crushing to pressing or even chemical extraction. There's basically nothing left over, only residues that have no commercial interest.
*Hemp is also used as a decorative plant. It's sometimes used on roundabouts in the area (which is where we spotted it and started asking questions), and it's not rare to read in the newspaper that people harvested that hemp thinking they were stealing cannabis...
In the mod:
We have Hemp grown in fields to be used by the textile industry, and Kralyerg's mod adds the trading of the drug, but from what I remember it's independent from the textile industry, so it reflects the real life situation pretty well.
