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【正文】 estry industry: The forestry industry makes money from cutting down trees. Therefore, they want to be able to continue to cut trees, and they want to discourage any alternative ways of producing pulp and paper.The environmentalists: The environmental lobby want to protect the forests against logging panies, so they would like to show how destructive logging is, and how valuable the forests are.The hemp farming lobby: The hemp farmers would like the fibre hemp plant to be legal so that they can grow it. They want to show how useful it is for making paper and other products, and they would like people to understand the difference between the marijuana plant and the fibre hemp plant.The marijuana legalization lobby: These people would like marijuana to be legal. They are interested in linking the fibre hemp plant with marijuana, because they think it may be possible to legalize BOTH kinds of plant. They want to show how useful industrial hemp is, and at the same time, they want to convince people that marijuana is harmless.The Canadian government: The Canadian government has just legalized industrial hemp, but they want to keep marijuana illegal, so they want to show that it is dangerous. They also get lots of taxes from the forestry industry, so they do not want to restrict logging too much. Your task in this exercise is to identify which group each quotation es from. (10 m)1. The rainforests are quite simply the richest, oldest, most productive and most plex ecosystems on Earth. a) the forestry industry b) the environmentalists c) the hemp farming lobby d) the marijuana legalization lobby2. Some have calculated that if Canada converted the entire pulp and paper production in Canada to hemp, it would be necessary to plant hemp over 18% of the country. a) the forestry industry b) the marijuana lobby c) the environmentalists d) the hemp farming lobby3. Farmers... can grow hemp without pesticide or herbicide application because it grows quickly and is not likely to fall to disease. a) the Canadian government b) the hemp farming lobby c) the forestry industry d) the marijuana legalization lobby4. Each year, forest fires destroy more forests than are used for making pulp and paper. a) the environmentalists b) the Canadian government c) the hemp farming lobby d) the forestry industry5. Decriminalizing cannabis could well result in a greater use of the drug by Canadians, thereby increasing the health and safety hazards associated with it. a) the marijuana legalization lobby b) the hemp farming lobby c) the Canadian government d) the environmentalists6. The government added marijuana in 1923 to The Opium Act of 1908 without any health concerns inherent in the law whatsoever. The Opium Act was introduced as a purely racist measure to deport and jail ChineseCanadians. a) the hemp farming lobby b) the Canadian government c) the forestry industry d) the marijuana legalization lobby7. 67% of the fibre used to make Canadian pulp and paper es from sawmill residue and recovered paper that used to be disposed of in landfills. a) the environmentalists b) the hemp farming lobby c) the forestry industry d) the marijuana legalization lobby8. Hemp is about business and the environment. Marijuana is a moral question about the government39。s Raincoast? 9. In 1996 how many acres of hemp were grown in Canada? 10. What percentage of fat does hemp seed contain? ResourcesHere are some links to WWW resources on this topic: Rainforest Action Network 183
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