It is important to understand hemp and marijuana are not the same. Think of apples. Granny Smith apples are green and sour while Honeycrisp apples are red and sweet. Both are still apples. Hemp and marijuana are two variations of the same cannabis plant. The main difference lies within their levels of THC content. THC stands for tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive component in cannabis responsible for making a person feel “high.” Marijuana is any cannabis plant with more than 0.3% THC. For a cannabis plant to be considered hemp, it needs to contain less than 0.3% THC, meaning products derived from hemp are not psychoactive. Unlike marijuana, hemp has over 25,000 different uses ranging from textiles, biofuels, paper, cosmetics, and hempcrete.