Cultivation of medicinal cannabis vs hemp

1. Differences between cultivating Medicinal Cannabis vs Hemp

Essentially, the main differences between Medicinal Cannabis vs Hemp cultivation relate to the permissions and scope of the licenced activities, i.e. what you are actually allowed to do.

With the hemp licence, you can produce fibre and hemp seeds while with the medicinal cannabis licence(s) you can produce the flowers and extract the cannabinoids.

The requirements for the starting materials are also much stricter in hemp, favouring only low THC strains (<1%). The chemical content of the hemp crops is also verified through regulatory crop sampling and testing to ensure that the strains are compliant.

Note that cultivation for purposes other than those explicitly outlined in each licence is a criminal offence: you can’t use a hemp licence to generate medicinal cannabis products and you can’t use a medicinal cannabis licence to generate hemp products.

To help you navigate between the two, a summary of the differences is detailed in the table.

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