
Why is the government dragging its heels over legalising a miracle plant that could create wealth as well as thousands of jobs and homes?
Nobody disputes the amazing properties of the hemp plant. Easy to grow and freakishly productive, environmentally-friendly, hemp has been a boon to humankind for at least 8 000 years, and possibly longer.
If it wasnt for the fact that certain members of the hemp family contain high levels of the narcotic ingredient THC, it would still be, as it once was, the worlds most widely-grown crop.
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