There is a hemp farmer in the UK who was recently approached by a business man offering him £5 million for all the flowers from his crop. The businessman wanted them to extract the CBD. Now this particular farmer doesn’t grow his crop of hemp for the flowers, so this is the kind of offer that would be hard to refuse.
Alas, we live in the UK and ALL types of cannabis flowers are controlled by the Home Office under the Misuse of Drugs Act. A hemp license does not allow for the cultivation of the flowers. So, the farmer had to refuse and burn all the flowers from his crop.
Home Office policy provides that licences may be issued for the cultivation of cannabis plants with a low tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content for the production of hemp fibre for industrial purposes or the obtaining of seeds which are then pressed for their oil. For both of these uses, licences are granted to enable the use of non-controlled parts of the plant (i.e. seeds and fibre/ mature stalk only). This policy is only applicable where non-controlled parts of the plant are used and does not allow for use of ‘green’ material- i.e. the leaves and flowers as these are controlled parts of the plant.
The businessman took his £5 million out of the UK and bought his CBD elsewhere.
Our laws are deranged.
