October 5, 2007
University Fights Ban on Growing of Hemp
North Dakota State University is supporting a lawsuit by farmers in that state to win the right to grow hemp, a form of cannabis, for use in legal products like food and soap. The university also wants to grow and study hemp plants, whose commercially usable parts lack THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive compound found in marijuana.
North Dakota is one of several states that have passed laws legalizing hemp production, but the cultivation has been blocked by the U.S. Drug
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