Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 8/14/16

The Golden LEAF Foundation’s $45 million grant to N.C. State University is a remarkably symbolic and effective use of the state’s proceeds from a national settlement with cigarette manufacturers.The grant will help North Carolina to diversify and develop its plant agriculture with funds linked to the harmful effects of cigarettes made from the plant that once defined North Carolina farming, tobacco.

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