It will soon be legal to grow hemp once again in Canada. Next month, the federal government in Ottawa is expected to approve a type of the cannabis plant to be cultivated for its fiber only. Hemp has been outlawed in Canada since the 1930’s because of fears that its cultivation would encourage use of the hallucinogen marijuana. But, as Judith Ritter reports, those fears have been allayed.
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