Source: Tracy Clemons, MYFOX 8, 2/4/21

 Hemp is a growing industry. Experts estimate by the year 2025, the industrial hemp market could grow to more than $26 billion. But less than one percent of the people involved in growing and selling legal cannabis are people of color. A program at North Carolina A&T State University is working to change that. “A lot of people, when they hear hemp, they automatically think of marijuana but they don’t know there’s literally a scientific definition between the two of them,” senior Ke’Shan Lighty said.

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