South America: U.S. Herbicide Contamination to Be Studied Under Legal

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Stephen Peacock

Narcosphere

Tuesday 11 Apr 2006

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An ongoing assessment of potential contamination caused by
U.S.-sponsored herbicide eradication of drug crops in South America and
domestically will soon begin, according to a recently obtained National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) planning document. The University of
Mississippi (Ole Miss) has received a five-year, $6 million federal
contract to carry out this and other cannabis-related tasks at its
National Center for Natural Products -- which operates the only legal
marijuana farm in the U.S.

In addition to analyzing marijuana seized by the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA), the Center will, ironically, grow and harvest up
to 1,000 kilos of bulk pot, while separately producing and distributing
hundreds of thousands of high, low and zero-potency marijuana cigarettes
to be used in clinical research. The Ole Miss facility also must
“extract, analyze, store [and] prepare” the cannabis for the sake of
determining its potency. According to the project’s "statement of work,"
one of those tasks includes the extraction and storage of one kilo of
pure THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.

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