writing a paper for Botany class...
Phytoremediation (using plants to clean soil) and delighted in the photo I took on my walk this morning... damn all the people who have an irrational fear of hemp!!! 
http://www.hemp.net/news/9901/06/hemp_eats_chernobyl_waste.html
...old article and information but I just found it interesting...
"...research institution in the Ukraine working on seed-breeding, seed-growing, cultivating, harvesting and processing hemp and flax. The Bast Institute has a genetic bank including 400 varieties of hemp from various regions of the world.
"Hemp is proving to be one of the best phyto-remediative plants we have been able to find," said Slavik Dushenkov, a research scienst with PHYTOTECH. Test results have been promising and CGP, PHYOTECH and the Bast Institute plan full scale trials in the Chernobyl region in the spring of 1999. New technologies in hemp harvesting and processing are also being developed at the Institute whose library contains more than 55,000 volumes mainly on hemp-growing and flax-growing..."
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