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Title: Farmers in Italy fight soil contamination with cannabis
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CBS News
URL Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cannabi ... nation-italy-vincenzo-fornaro/
Published: Mar 12, 2017
Author: Seth Doane
Post Date: 2017-03-14 08:45:29 by Operation 40
Keywords: hemp, cannabis, savetheworld
Views: 978
Comments: 4
Farmers in Italy fight soil contamination with cannabis TARANTO, Italy -- Farmers in a region of Italy once known for cheeses have turned to cultivating a type of cannabis -- not to smoke or sell -- but to decontaminate polluted soil. The hemp they’re growing contains very little THC -- the compound that makes people high. Vincenzo Fornaro showed CBS News an empty farm, once packed with more than 600 sheep. “For generations, our family produced ricotta and meat,” Fornaro recalled. It wasn’t until 2008 when Italy’s government discovered the toxic chemical dioxin in his sheep and slaughtered the entire herd. The culprit was just a mile away. Contaminants spewing from a massive steel plant -- Europe’s largest -- meant Fornaro could never have grazing animals again. To clean up his land he decided to try a rather unusual experiment. Fornaro planted industrial hemp to try to leach contaminants from the soil. snip more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cannabis-plant-soil-decontamination-italy-vincenzo-fornaro/ The movie the Feds said was never made. Thanks Jack! "Make the most of the Hemp seed and sow it everywhere!" - George Washington, 1794
This apartment building -- with cannabis out front -- is built with hemp composite materials
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#1. To: Operation 40 (#0)
Are the farmers using bongs, joints, blunts, Hookah, pipes, hot knives or just going straight to the dome while they are "using" the Marijuana in this fight? Regardless as to whatever the farmers are using as their combat method….I am pulling for the soil to win this ghastly fight. Please keep us posted on this great struggle, Op 40?
You just know that someone is going to smoke these plants and die from the toxins. Now, whether we read about that or not is another thing.
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