The SLO Cannabis Watch Group equates the smell of cannabis with a pig farm (“In need of change,” Oct. 10). Admittedly, cannabis can be a bit “skunky,” but to my nose, it is a much more pleasant odor than that produced by a bunch of hogs. I also wonder if hemp, grown for the fibers of the trunk and stem and not the psychoactive flowers, might be less smelly.
Brent Dannells
Atascadero
This article appears in Oct 17-27, 2019.
I grew up in a rural farm community and can say –with some reasonable level of accuracy here– that every single farm I’ve ever visited STUNK. So for FARMERS to complain about stink on others’ farms, invite Big Government onto their land, demand more regulations and controls, decry the injustices of land rights, attack capitalism & free markets, and promote the violations of virtually the entire Bill of Rights… I call bull***t and bigotry.
I have been assured that the Hemp plant regardless of it’s THC or CBD content is the same plant with the same odors. Much like that we encounter on our roads from auto exhaust buffeted by the prevailing winds.
However, in my experience as a chemically sensitive individual, most odors are quickly dissipated, avoided or the symptoms treated just as I treat my reactions to pollens or Santa Ana winds. I do not hear any suggestions that car exhaust or perfumes be banned for my sake. I am not convinced that sensitivity to hemp is a common problem. What I did learn is the reactions, if any, to Hemp is about as severe as my reaction to airborne pollution which often lasts the entire year.