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t isn't marijuana, It :is ,'q.
fibre crop, like cotton
hot flax and as of Match
4, 1998, it is legal, to grow
in Canada And some may
be grown in Huron:
Although licitly' is a
member of .t to cannabis
family like marijuana, it
' has boon. grown over the
years for its fibre. Hemp
has three tittles the fibres in
its stalls than marijuana; '
And • hemp, by def nitionc
contains only. 0.3 per. cent
Of the drug tetrahydro-
'canna,binQl (THC) in its
leaves while marijuana
generally averagesihree to
f Ve per eent'TUC.
Gncoyouget past the
differing, definitions and
leggy: red tape what Yell
.hay is a trop with• ittcredy
ible econOrrmic. potential. It
is ,this'pQ.entia`l which.
likely convinced,. the
Canadian Senate to
approve 13i11 C�S which .
makes it legal to grow and
harvest hemp stalk,. But it
also took. the convincing
of a young. engineer,
Geefrey Kline, president
of Fiempline, to get the
senate to budge,
Kiane has spent the past
five, or six years research-
ing. hetttp producti.an. in
Canada, -The major break=
through, in allowing the.
cultivation of hemp in
Canada was having hemp
stalkand fibre excluded
from ,being a regulated.•
substance "This is a direct
result of a request I, made
in trout of the• Senate, '1
knew It was. one last
chance: citizens had. to
comwenton the bill," said.
Knife. The old law, was, so
broad, everythingshat
could- be .made frot: hemp
was defined as a regulated•
substance, froth papt"r•and,
textile cg, cloth and. con-
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The president •• of the
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in April 1996: and by ;rune.
of 'that year, the bill
(which started out aS'Bili Q+aof Kirr taf He plane htrids_laast fibres from a-
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Controller Drugs,” and:
Substances Act) had
received Royal assent. It.
was proclaimed into htw
last spring, on May 14,
1990..
It WAS a suurprisi`ng out,
come.. i did it purely out of
entnmercial intent and
practicality. They (the sen.
u) saw it clearly made
economic sense.
Kline credits Senator
Lorna Milne of the
Torontoarea as the "singie
M
'bre
most supportive and rm.
tine politician on this
issue. She saw 'the .potence
fiat of, legalizing hemp and:
"she's the one who carried
it forward." Kime has
nothing hut positive thinks
to say about rural MPs like
Rose Marie Ur, of
Latnbtott-1 eat,Middlesex,
Patti Steclt,ie of Huron.
Bruce and ntan,y others
who have been supportive
of the bill. "They COO.-
.
see' 'Many', page 37