Petition seeks OK for hemp in energy research
Two years after voters rejected a proposal to allow Nevadans to possess one ounce of marijuana for personal use, a plan has surfaced to permit research into using industrial hemp, a relative of marijuana, to generate energy. An initiative petition has been filed to allow the Desert Research Institute at the University of Nevada, Reno, to research industrial hemp as a source of biomass for energy. Read more:
Technorati Tags: Cy Ryan, Las Vegas SUN, Carson City, Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada Reno, Kathryn Whitman, Hemp for Fuel Inc., Greg Bortolin, Nevada’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, NCET
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