[Image] Near the Ural Mountains, 1910 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii There is a wonderful story in today's edition of The Baltimore Sun about hemp researcher Dr. Sergey Grigoryev of the N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry. Unfortunately I can't get permission to reprint the story or the picture. So, I have an image in the public domain above and the first three paragraphs are below.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - The sign on Sergei Grigoryev's office door says "Narcobaron," or drug baron, over a faint picture of a marijuana leaf. That's his way of weathering the joshing he gets for doing nothing more than showing up for work each day.
After all, Grigoryev promotes hemp.
The scientist at the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry in St. Petersburg is quick to draw a distinction between the connotations the word brings to mind - pot, weed, maryjane, hashish, ganja, herb, chronic - and the plant he calls one of the most valuable ever cultivated.
"N.I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry"
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