Colorado State University Launches Hemp Research Project

Somewhere in Northern Colorado, just starting to peek out above the corn stalks that surround it, is an often misunderstood and recently approved test crop.

Colorado State University is starting to research hemp, a plant with practical uses but which is also the same species as marijuana, cannabis sativa.

CSU researchers planted 17 varieties of hemp on just less than a half acre on June 6. CSU is using the same protocols as a research project underway in Europe.

“We’re sort of piggybacking onto that as our first foray into working on hemp,” said John McKay, associate professor of plant evolutionary genetics in CSU’s College of Agricultural Sciences. “The Colorado Department of Agriculture worked with the researchers in Europe as well as negotiated with federal agencies to import the seed on our behalf.

“We’re basically looking to see, overall, how does this plant grow? (And) How does this plant grow...

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