It was only Hemp....

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One of the things that I love is when our television news crews come up with some wacky news story that is so silly that you wonder how it could possibly be true. The one I heard tonight is no exception: It seems that Dutch police thought they had made a huge pot bust. They got on the news and announced that they'd found more than 47,000 plants with an extimated street value of more than $6 million dollars! The police captain sent over the street workers who take care of the city's parks and had them mow down the Kemp plants. Halfway through the landscaping assignment, officials learned that the plants were actually part of an officially sanctioned research project from Wageningen University's science department! Students were growing a new strain of hemp, related to the marijuana plant, but with only a trace of the THC drug that gives pot its high! The university says that the project was part of a study to develop a sustainable source of fiber. To me, the story doesn't seem to fly...I wonder if the scientists/students weren't smoking some of the hemp! Anyone else want to comment?