据泰国《慢谷邮报》报道:在位于英格兰东南角的肯特郡的偏远农村地区,一群环境保护主义者正在试种一种新作物。 他们认为,这种作物能给英国的农业带来一场革命、减少贸易逆差、增加农村地区的就业机会以及减少第三世界的环境和保健问题。 他们种植的是大麻,又叫马力求那,这是一种可用于生产布匹和纸的坚韧纤维。现在,廉价进口的棉花制品和把木桨用作造纸原材料的新工序、降低了大麻作为工业材料的受欢迎程度。 According to Thailand’s Slow Valley Post, a group of environmentalists is experimenting with a new crop in remote rural areas of Kent in the southeast corner of England. They believe that such a crop could revolutionize British agriculture, reduce trade deficits, increase employment opportunities in rural areas and reduce environmental and health problems in the Third World. They grow marijuana, also known as horsepower, a tough fiber that can be used to make cloth and paper. The current availability of cheaply imported cotton products and new processes using woodpulp as a papermaking raw material has reduced the popularity of cannabis as an industrial material.