Hello Sara,
Thank you for your imput and photo, however I think your photo is a narcotic marijuana plant as I see the website is from Amsterdam, Holland whereby marijuana is legal over there in their Cannabis Cafes.
Are you saying that owners before you grew this narcotic marijuana?
or you have the Cannabis Sativa (Industrial Hemp Plant)? but the police are misinformed and confused by the two varieties of Hemp?
It sounds like and very possible from the article that started this
thread - the majority of the population (me included) have swallowed, hook, line and sinker the lies first publicized back in 1930 that the Hemp Plant and Marijuana Cannabis are one and the same thing and to be destroyed which eradicated a huge American Industry for the sake of the Paper Mills.
Here is another article I found on the web.
The Amazing
Hemp Plant (Cannabis sativa L.)
by
Karen Railey
http://chetday.com/hemp.html
The
hemp plant is not only one of the oldest cultivated plants, it is also one of
the most versatile, valuable, and controversial plants known to man. The industrial
hemp plant has a long history, which has proven its innate worth and its stalks
and seeds can serve as raw material for an exciting array of many diverse products.
The plant’s Latin name actually means "useful hemp," and it definitely
measures up to its name!
WHAT
IS CANNABIS SATIVA?
The
industrial hemp plant, Cannabis sativa, should not be confused with the
marijuana plant, which is its cousin. The appearance, planting patterns, and uses of the two plants are quite different.
Cannabis
sativa is an annual belonging to the nettle family. It grows from 5 to 15
feet in height with rich dark-green leaves composed of 5 to 9 serrated, narrow,
tapering leaflets that are pointed at the end and measure 2 to 5 inches in length
and approximately one-sixth as wide. Hemp is tall, thin plant with most of its
leaves concentrated at the top. The plants are planted only inches apart: 900
plants to the square yard. The staminate, or pollen-bearing flowers, and the pistillate
or seed-producing flowers are on separate plants.
In
contrast to the commercial hemp plant, the marijuana plant is quite dense, leafier,
shorter, bushier, and is planted yards apart.
Cannabis
sativa will grow almost anywhere, requires little fertilizer, resists pests
and crowds out weeds, therefore it is a crop that is relatively easy to grow and
does well as an organic crop. The plant grows quickly, requiring only 70 to 110
days to maturity. Due to this fact, industrial hemp is an abundant supplier of
its extremely valuable raw materials.
Cannabis Sativa Female Plant - (The Industrial Hemp Plant)