{"id":240836,"date":"2025-05-14T05:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/poisoned-farmland-industrial-marijuana-to-the-rescue\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T05:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:09:53","slug":"poisoned-farmland-industrial-marijuana-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836","title":{"rendered":"Poisoned Farmland\u2014 Industrial Marijuana to the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Poisoned Farmland\u2014 Industrial Marijuana to the Rescue\" class=\"wp-image-44561\" src=\"https:\/\/cookingupastory.com\/storage\/2016\/07\/Industrial-Marijuana-720x405.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cookingupastory.com\/storage\/2016\/07\/Industrial-Marijuana-720x405.jpg\" alt=\"Poisoned Farmland\u2014 Industrial Marijuana to the Rescue\" class=\"wp-image-44561\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Growing an unique crop: Industrial Marijuana (hemp)<\/h2>\n<p>What happens when the largest employer in town is discovered to have killed 11,000 local residents and heavily contaminated a 12-mile radius of surrounding farmland?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what happened in the city of Taranto from the fumes generated by their local steel production plant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The Ilva steel plant covers 15 million square meters\u2014nearly three times the size of the city itself. It opened in 1965 and doubled in size by the 1970s. It once churned out almost one-third of Italy\u2019s steel.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Over the ensuing years, the surrounding farmland became contaminated with a variety of heavy metals\u2014lead and nickel, and other toxic substances including dangerous levels of dioxin. In Taranto, Italy, which lies in the heel of the Italian peninsula\u2014 authorities finally moved in and seized control of the plant in 2012. Since then, 1000 enterprises were shut down and meat production has fallen 10%.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to clean up the farmland<\/h2>\n<p>How do you clean up the land? The answer: grow industrial marijuana\u2014hemp. It was known since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine that the hemp plant is able to absorb toxins in the soil and neutralize them. According to the article in Slate, Chernobyl, was the first time hemp was used for environmental restoration of the land.<\/p>\n<p>While the steel plant still operates today, it\u2019s operating well below capacity. Instead of chemical fumes encircling the land, there\u2019s now the sweet smell of hemp in the air. And, the crops are safe for processing into fibers for apparel, though the seeds are not yet considered safe for consumption.<\/p>\n<p>That may be as sweet as it gets for the people of this industrial town whose future had been hijacked for what others deemed (at the time) to be for the greater economic good.<\/p>\n<p>Read the post on Slate: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/roads\/2016\/07\/taranto_italy_is_decontaminating_its_land_by_cultivating_hemp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hemp and Change<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:La_Roche_Jagu_chanvre_1.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wikipedia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing an unique crop: Industrial Marijuana (hemp) What happens when the largest employer in town is discovered to have killed 11,000 local residents and heavily contaminated a 12-mile radius of surrounding farmland? That\u2019s what happened in the city of Taranto from the fumes generated by their local steel production plant. \u201cThe Ilva steel plant covers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12026],"tags":[19155,603,27254,39233,4222],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-240836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","tag-farmland","tag-industrial","tag-marijuana","tag-poisoned","tag-rescue"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Poisoned Farmland\u2014 Industrial Marijuana to the Rescue - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Poisoned Farmland\u2014 Industrial Marijuana to the Rescue - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Growing an unique crop: Industrial Marijuana (hemp) What happens when the largest employer in town is discovered to have killed 11,000 local residents and heavily contaminated a 12-mile radius of surrounding farmland? That\u2019s what happened in the city of Taranto from the fumes generated by their local steel production plant. \u201cThe Ilva steel plant covers [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-14T05:09:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Industrial-Marijuana.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"405\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371\"},\"headline\":\"Poisoned Farmland\u2014 Industrial Marijuana to the Rescue\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-14T05:09:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836\"},\"wordCount\":319,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Industrial-Marijuana.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Farmland\",\"Industrial\",\"Marijuana\",\"poisoned\",\"Rescue\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Agriculture\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836\",\"name\":\"Poisoned Farmland\u2014 Industrial Marijuana to the Rescue - Som2ny Network\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Industrial-Marijuana.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-14T05:09:53+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Industrial-Marijuana.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Industrial-Marijuana.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":405},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?bp_activities=1\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Poisoned Farmland\u2014 Industrial Marijuana to the Rescue\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/\",\"name\":\"Som2ny Network\",\"description\":\"Daily Deals\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Som2ny Network\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png\",\"width\":300,\"height\":86,\"caption\":\"Som2ny Network\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Poisoned Farmland\u2014 Industrial Marijuana to the Rescue - Som2ny Network","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Poisoned Farmland\u2014 Industrial Marijuana to the Rescue - Som2ny Network","og_description":"Growing an unique crop: Industrial Marijuana (hemp) What happens when the largest employer in town is discovered to have killed 11,000 local residents and heavily contaminated a 12-mile radius of surrounding farmland? That\u2019s what happened in the city of Taranto from the fumes generated by their local steel production plant. \u201cThe Ilva steel plant covers [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836","og_site_name":"Som2ny Network","article_published_time":"2025-05-14T05:09:53+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":405,"url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Industrial-Marijuana.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371"},"headline":"Poisoned Farmland\u2014 Industrial Marijuana to the Rescue","datePublished":"2025-05-14T05:09:53+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836"},"wordCount":319,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Industrial-Marijuana.jpg","keywords":["Farmland","Industrial","Marijuana","poisoned","Rescue"],"articleSection":["Agriculture"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836","name":"Poisoned Farmland\u2014 Industrial Marijuana to the Rescue - Som2ny Network","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Industrial-Marijuana.jpg","datePublished":"2025-05-14T05:09:53+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Industrial-Marijuana.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Industrial-Marijuana.jpg","width":720,"height":405},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=240836#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?bp_activities=1"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Poisoned Farmland\u2014 Industrial Marijuana to the Rescue"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/","name":"Som2ny Network","description":"Daily Deals","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#organization","name":"Som2ny Network","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0953c4-logo-300x86-1.png","width":300,"height":86,"caption":"Som2ny Network"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b85e3c3dc0e1daea076524dc8810c371","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/729ae85bf62b9917e93538db2f2688ca?s=96&r=g&default=https%3A%2F%2Ffivemor.com%2Fwp-content%2Fplugins%2Fbuddypress-first-letter-avatar%2Fimages%2Fdefault%2F96%2Flatin_a.png","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/fivemor.com"],"url":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/240837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240836"},{"taxonomy":"dealstore","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdealstore&post=240836"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fofferexpiration&post=240836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}