<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/304f2f97-8bf2-4b82-95e7-b45daba68d1d/01615D92-03C5-44C1-BBF3-AADF95BA7998/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2348744.ece/Drug_bust_targets_academic_experiment" href="http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2348744.ece/Drug_bust_targets_academic_experiment" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nrc.nl</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2348744.ece/Drug_bust_targets_academic_experiment"><H1> Drug bust targets academic experiment</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2348744.ece/Drug_bust_targets_academic_experiment"><DIV class="article_introduction"> An 'marijuana plantation' which was busted in Lelystad on Wednesday turns out to be a legal university test plot.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2348744.ece/Drug_bust_targets_academic_experiment"><DIV class="articletext"> <P align=""> Academics from Wageningen University are using the field to ascertain whether hemp could replace cotton as a textile crop. </p> <P align=""> After an anonymous tip-off, a police helicopter was used to find the field. Police officers had begun uprooting the plants when university contacted the police and showed official permits for growing hemp. The officers immediately suspended their destruction of the crop. </p> The field contained approximately 47,000 hemp plants which would have had a street value of 4.4 million euros - if the plants had not been manipulated so that they don't produce the hallucinogenic ingredient THC. They had been modified to make sure their fibre is stronger than that of ordinary marijuana plants. <TABLE width="240" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" border="0" align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD><TABLE width="180" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" border="0" align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD><A href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save" class="a2a_dd"><IMG width="171" height="16" border="0" alt="Share/Save/Bookmark" src="http://static.addtoany.com/buttons/share_save_171_16.png" /></A> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P align=""> As a result, the 'drug plantation' crop had a street value of exactly 0 euros. </p> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/01615D92-03C5-44C1-BBF3-AADF95BA7998/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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