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This article is from the Hemp / Cannabis / Marijuana FAQ, by Brian S. Julin verdant@twain.ucs.umass.edu with numerous contributions by others.

31 Won't children be able to steal marijuana plants that people are growing?

Well, if you are worried about them stealing the hemp
plants from the paper-pulp farm down the road, you should
know that the commercial grades of hemp do not contain much
THC (the stuff that gets you high.) If they were to smoke
it, they would probably just get a headache. Otherwise, it
should be the responsibility of the grower to take measures
to prevent this. Most ``home-grown'' marijuana is
cultivated indoors anyway. If the children in your town
have nothing better to do than go around stealing marijuana
to smoke, your town needs to buy a library or something.

(industrial hemp has very low THC content)

``Hemp Variations as Pulp Source Researched in the Netherlands'' by E.
P. M. de Meijer in ``Pulp & Paper'' pp. 41-42. pub. July, 1993.

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