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A FIELD of harmless hemp was ransacked after Facebook users claimed to have discovered a ten acre patch of wild cannabis in rural Sussex.
Police were called after vandals ripped up the legal plants and tried to smoke them.
Landowner Keith Langmead said: “They can smoke it all they like, they won’t get high.
“They could have a bonfire of it and they still won’t get high.”
Farmer Nathaniel Loxley, 28, said people started stealing his plants after a message was posted on Facebook at the weekend.
“This is industrial hemp with no THC content, no psychoactive content.
A little snap taken before we had our 'English summer' downpour this week! Sunshine is very welcome now. pic.twitter.com/mAyoXKoaMU
— Hop and Hemp Trading (@HopandHemp) June 3, 2015
“There have been a few kids trespassing and some theft.
“It’s understandable, it’s not...
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