Industrial hemp grows differently than marijuana: 

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• Hemp is typically grown upwards, not outwards, because the focus is not on producing buds but on producing length of stalks. 

• Hemp is grown close together and is generally a very narrow, vertical growth crop, to a height of ten to fifteen feet before harvest, (any THC-producing marijuana would stick out like a sore thumb).  

• In this way, hemp is a very similar crop to bamboo.

• The stalk contains the fibre and hard, woody core material that can be used for a variety of purposes, even carpentry.

• However, since industrial hemp does not contain buds and the hardy parts of the plant are the more desired, it can be grown in a wider range of areas.

• Generally, industrial hemp grows best on fields that provide high yields for corn crops.

• Furthermore, male plants as well as female plants can be used (since the object is not THC production), higher crop yields can result.

• Hemp also has little potential to produce high-content THC when pollinated.

• As long as industrial hemp plants are pollinated by members of their own crop, then the genetics will remain similar with low levels of THC.

• One would have to place several marijuana plants in close vicinity in over several generations in order to alter the genetics substantially of the offspring.