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Hemp may be legalized

Jul 16, 2008
By Adam Mullett

NOT SO HIGH: Industrial hemp cannot be used for recreational purposes.

VILNIUS - Members of the Lithuanian government are drafting a bill to legalize the growth of industrial hemp. The plant is not psychoactive and would be used to create fibers and other materials. The plants are permitted in the European Union, but some are worried that these laws could create difficulties for narcotics enforcement. Alvirdas Basulis, head of the Rural Development Division of the department of agriculture, said that industrial hemp and the psychoactive strain are very similar ...

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