The decision came after young people took an interest in the plant, known across the Soviet Union as dichka. The authorities burned the fields and sprayed them, and the plants grew back: their roots run deep, and stronger chemicals would have killed everything else. Industrial harvesting of hemp in the valley stopped in the middle of the 1980s.[1][2]
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