Can Hemp Clean Up the Earth?

Scientists are looking at how hemp could clean contaminated soil – further proving it to be a miracle plant

By Andrew Leonard

In 2017, Gavin Stonehouse, a graduate student in plant biology at Colorado State University, started cultivating hemp plants in a special soil mixture dosed with varying levels of selenium. A mineral that occurs naturally in most of the western United States, selenium is also a nasty environmental pollutant when produced in excess by industrial and agricultural activities.

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