"== Two articles or one? == 

 From   
 :We can not avoid listing drug material as one of hemp's end products.  Therefore two articles (Hemp and Cannabis) are more confusing than helpful. 
 :The articles should be merged under “Hemp (cannabis)”.  (This title adopts - to my mind - a nice convention, that of common English name followed by parenthetical botanical Latin.) 
 :Opening sentences could read as follows: 
 :“Hemp is an annual herb and a source of various valuable materials, of which drug material is just one.  Others include textile fibre, food and fuel. 
 :“In the modern English-speaking world, under the name hemp, the herb has been long known as a source of textile fibre.  Its reputation as a source of drug material, under the names cannabis and marijuana, is a relatively recent development. 
 :“Cannabis, as the herb’s name in botanical Latin, was the name preferred by 19th century medical practitioners who helped to introduce its drug potential to the modern English-speaking world. 
 :“Marijuana is Mexican or Latin American in origin and associated almost exclusively with the herb’s drug potential.  That marijuana is now well known in English as a name for drug material is due largely to the efforts of US drug prohibitionists during the 1920s and 30s.  (We can surmise that this name was highlighted because it helped to characterise the herbal drug as quite alien to English-speaking culture.) 
 :“Crops grown for different end uses need different management regimes, and selective breeding has produced varieties suited more to some uses than to others.  Also, since circa 1930, breeders have focussed quite specifically on producing strains which would perform very poorly as sources of drug material.  Drug potential is measured in terms of THC content and strains licensed in the EU for cultivation for ‘industrial purposes’ now have THC levels below 0.3%.  Drug strains can have THC levels above 10%.”  

  

 == ""G-13""  Fact or Fiction? == 

 from the slang section: 

 :G-13 (developed at the University of Washington) 

 Is there any evidence of this?  ""G-13"" is the name people claim is given to marijuana grown by the federal government for people with medical use accepted by the federal government (which is supposedly a tiny number of people - like 10).  It's supposedly a super-potent strain.  It's also supposedly an urban legend.  I've heard different things and even sampled what was claimed to be G-13.  It was certainly expensive enough, but I'm not convinced this is not an urban legend, apparently popularized by the movie American Beauty.  I certainly never heard anything specific like the above, and I couldn't verify it by googling for ""g-13"" and ""University of Washington""  such searches mostly point to this page.  Can anyone document that G-13 actually exists and was developed at this university?  

 :Anytime you're buying cannabis, especially if it's in an illegal market, there's no way to know that it is what the seller says it is, and it's likely not what they say it is, but that does not mean that it doesn't exist. Maybe it warrants removal, but keep in mind that if the term is used for super-potent strains, it might still be appropriate even if you can't point to a single strain that is certainly it. -   

 ::fair enough, but then the clain that it was developed at a particular university should be removed, no?  

 :::*Ahem*  Excuse me, but I live in Washington, and I've had ""chemo-bud"", as they call it, from the University of Washington.  Very black with sticky resin which turns into white resin when burned.  Strange stuff that chemo-bud.  And, although I'm not sure if it's really called ""G-13"", I've encountered a very rare and super-potent strain of chemo-bud that is nearly legendary in quality.  It's so black with resin and full of THC crystals that it looks as if it was dipped in tar and rolled in sugar, but when you break it open, it's like that all the way through.  A single hit can do what 10 bowls of the highest quality BC hydrochronic cannot.  Not even thunderfuck is in the same ballpark as this stuff.  I was told when I got it that it was G-13.  Maybe the person who had it was lying  but if you'd sampled it, you'd have believed them.  It was without exaggeration the stoner's Holy Grail, the kind of thing you're lucky to experience once in 10 lifetimes.  I know that G-13 exists, because I've smoked it, but I don't think it should be included, because including it removes the air of mystery surro