The Chronicle of Higher Education

North Dakota State U. Backs Lawsuit to Legalize Growing of Hemp

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

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 the psychoactive compound THC found in...

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