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Hemp Fiber Growth
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3-3-2009 12:35 PM
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Higher yield, no pesticides, less water, a carbon sink. It's time has come!
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"People said I must be smoking what I'm selling – who would want to buy clothes made of hemp?" he says.</SPAN></P></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-cnrc.gc.ca/highlights/2008/0803hemp_e.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/img/8EAB39A7-6593-4085-AE56-3D3271B73D83" alt="Raw hemp stalk" /></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-cnrc.gc.ca/highlights/2008/0803hemp_e.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" align="center" class="caption">Raw hemp stalk</TD></tr></table></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-cnrc.gc.ca/highlights/2008/0803hemp_e.html"><SPAN>Today, 13 years later, consumer demand has caught up, and Finnis' company Naturally Advanced Technologies (NAT) provides environmentally friendly clothing to clients such as Google, Starbucks and Costco through its wholly owned subsidiary HTnaturals. 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