Jump to content
The Corroboree

It's a weird weird world


hutch

Recommended Posts

Read this in my local rag this morning, no linky thing sorry....

THE HAGUE: Dutch police proudly announced on Thursday that they'd mowed down more than 47,000 cannabis plants with a street value of $6.45 million but were red faced yesterday when it emerged they'd ruined a research groups officially sanctioned feild of harmless hemp...

LMAO

Hutch

Link to comment
Share on other sites

...so, by there own admission, they owe the research group $6.45 million

Edited by Legba
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Thursday, 3 September 2009

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8237006.stm

BBC © MMIX

Hemp plants look like cannabis ones, but have little psychoactive effect

A triumph for Dutch police quickly turned out to be an embarrassing mistake after they destroyed what they thought was a field of cannabis plants.

Police on Wednesday announced they had discovered a plantation of some 47,000 illicit cannabis plants with a street value of 4.4m euros ($6.3m; £3.8m).

They had destroyed much of the crop when they were told the plants belonged to a respected school of agriculture.

They were a type of hemp, being grown as a fibre for use in textiles.

Hemp is related to cannabis, but contains only trace amounts of THC, the psychoactive substance found in marijuana.

They were being grown in the field near Lelystad, Flevoland province under licence by researchers from Wageningen University who were studying the hemp variety as a potential sustainable source of textiles.

"The street value from a drug point of view is less than zero," the university's Simon Vink told AP news agency.

Under Dutch law, cannabis is a controlled substance, and its large-scale production is illegal.

However a policy of tolerance is applied to individual users.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...