Pubdate: Sun, 24 Jul 2005
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Copyright: 2005 Los Angeles Times
Contact:  http://www.latimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/248
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ARCHITECT MAKING A HOUSE OF HEMP

An Australian architect is having a house built from hemp, the botanical 
relative of cannabis, and is harvesting 2.5 million plants that will be 
ground up and used to make bricks.

The hemp bricks are said to have better insulating qualities than 
traditional ones. The hemp used has a low level of THC, the active chemical 
in marijuana.
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