Smoking Hemp Is a Growing Cannabis Trend. But What Does It Actually Do?

Till now, most cannabis consumers thought they knew the deal with hemp.

In basic terms, it’s the weed you don’t smoke. It’s still cannabis, only bred for fiber rather than the resin that gets you high. As such, it contains practically no THC. It is, however, chock-full of cannabidiol, or CBD, the cannabinoid with many allegedly therapeutic properties even your parents probably use to soothe their arthritis.

So with CBD mania running wild—combined with the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, which removed hemp from the federal list of controlled substances—”smokable hemp” is actually a thing now, and it’s growing in popularity.