[eddieone]

The hemp flowers are good, cbd is interesting. We did a small experiment using hemp as replacement for tobacco. There is very little psychoactive components. The difference is that it smokes like a dream. When the user runs out though, tobacco cravings come back full swing. It could become a good harm reduction technique for tobacco/vaping users. Still the production is just starting in my state, so it's rare and expensive.

[mkl]

Breathing a different kind of smoke and hoping it will reduce harm seems a bit bizarre. Smoke particles are dangerous whatever you burned to get them, right?

I guess it wouldn't have the addictive qualities of nicotine, but addiction means people wouldn't switch away in the first place.

[slfnflctd]

There is at least some preliminary evidence that smoke from the cannabis/hemp flower is less toxic than commercial tobacco smoke (much of which may be due to the fact that people usually smoke far less mass of the former)-- heavy marijuana users do not seem to have the same sort of cancer risk spike as heavy cigarette smokers.

[paradoxparalax]

As a decades veteran smoker of tobacco and weed and Wild Hemp without buds, only leaves and seeds that can be found around The Great Wall of China, I can see Hemp replacing Weed or at least softening the Carving, but I can not see how it could effectively help to quit tobacco, in my experience.

[redwood]

I remember seeing plants in the wild near the great wall when I was there!