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USA: New heights but no high – why hemp sales are soaring – BBC News
By David Silverberg – Business reporter- BBC – 7 March 2019
When Margaret MacKenzie heard that President Trump had legalised the cultivation of hemp across the US just before Christmas, she immediately thought: “Oh boy, here we go! Things are going to move very fast.”
The Colorado farmer tends to about 15 acres (six hectares) of hemp, the varieties of the cannabis plant that generally don’t have any psychotropic effect – they cannot be used to make a person “high”. Unfortunately for hemp, being a near-relative and lookalike of marijuana has meant that it has always been tarnished by association.
So while hemp is a very useful crop that can be turned into everything from clothes to shoes, paper, animal feed and building insulation, the cultivation of it was banned in many countries during the 20th Century.
READ MORE: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47400789
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USA: New heights but no high – why hemp sales are soaring – BBC News
USA: New heights but no high – why hemp sales are soaring – BBC News
When Margaret MacKenzie heard that President Trump had legalised the cultivation of hemp across the US just before Christmas, she immediately thought: “Oh boy, here we go! Things are going to move very fast.”
The Colorado farmer tends to about 15 acres (six hectares) of hemp, the varieties of the cannabis plant that generally don’t have any psychotropic effect – they cannot be used to make a person “high”. Unfortunately for hemp, being a near-relative and lookalike of marijuana has meant that it has always been tarnished by association.
So while hemp is a very useful crop that can be turned into everything from clothes to shoes, paper, animal feed and building insulation, the cultivation of it was banned in many countries during the 20th Century.
READ MORE: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47400789
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