



BEES ARE FLOCKING TO HEMP FARMS
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BEES ARE FLOCKING TO HEMP FARMS.
Researchers have documented over a dozen bee subspecies showing up on hemp crops, drawn to the pollen off male plants even though this plant offers no nectar, no bright colors, none of the usual tricks flowers use to court a pollinator. The bigger and taller the grow, the more bees show up. That's not an accident. That's a starving population taking whatever protein source it can find.
And here's the part that should make you angry. Bees are collapsing right now because of pesticides, habitat destruction, and climate change, while cannabis farming tends to skip the heavy pesticide load and doesn't demand much water to grow. This plant, the one we've been told for a century is a menace, might actually be one of the more forgiving crops left standing for a species we cannot survive without.
Sit with that. The same institutions that spent decades funding propaganda to convince you a plant is dangerous never lifted a finger while industrial monoculture and chemical agriculture quietly wiped out the pollinators that make a third of our food possible. They'll hold hearings about a joint but not about the pesticides gutting an entire species. Priorities tell you everything about a system.
Nobody's saying cannabis is a pollinator savior, the science is early and this isn't pollinated by bees, it's wind pollinated. But when a "dangerous" plant turns out to be a low-pesticide refuge for a collapsing species while the legal, subsidized, government-approved crops keep torching them, that's not a coincidence. That's an indictment.
Grow clean. Let the males do their thing before you pull them. The bees are asking for help. It'd be nice if the system that criminalized this plant for a hundred years spent half that energy protecting the insects actually feeding us.
Sources:
- vice.com, "Study Finds Bees Don't Just Love Cannabis ā it Can Also Help Save Their Dying Populations"
- greenstate.com, "For weed fans, saving the bees starts at the dispensary"
- merryjane.com, "Bees Love Weed Almost as Much as We Do, Study Finds"
- bestbees.com, "What's the Buzz on Bees and Cannabis?"
- ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, "Chemical Composition of Four Industrial Hemp Pollen and Bee Preference"