Healthful hemp poised to grow in US
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 13:55
in Mathematics & Economics
The U.S. hemp industry has suffered from an association problem. Antidrug officials say distinguishing the plant from its psychoactive cousin, marijuana, is too difficult, so growing it has largely been banned. But the tide could be turning for the nutrient-packed crop thanks to the increasing demand for healthful foods and wider acceptance of marijuana, according to an article in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society.