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Acres of cannabis grown legally in Surrey

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Cannabis users are flocking to a Surrey field to steal crops, but the plants are in fact hemp, which looks identical, but has no intoxicating affect. Hemp is used in building products, food, cosmetics and textiles. United Kingdom. 22nd August 2011
in Our World, on the 22nd of August 2011

The cannabis plants pictured here are hemp used for industrial purposes - because they are exactly the same family as cannabis they fool drug users into believing they are the real thing.

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A path beaten through this crop of hemp by thieves who believe they are actually harvesting cannabis.

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Just part of a field of industrial hemp which thieves are mistaking for cannabis. An area around Dorking in Surrey has hundreds of acres of this crop

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