The High-Stakes Race to Breed Cannabis With 0% THC

Farmers are scrambling to cash in on the CBD boom. But when their hemp crops tip over the 0.3% legal limit for THC, they lose everything.

Sarah Kessler
OneZero
Published in
12 min readNov 11, 2019

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Illustrations: Eva Cremers

TThis fall, for the first time since 1970, farmers throughout the United States were set to harvest federally legal hemp. From New York to Kansas to…

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Sarah Kessler
OneZero

Author and journalist, writing and editing at Medium’s OneZero.