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Starting this fall, Eastern Connecticut State University will offer hemp cultivation as an academic minor program of study, they announced in a news release Thursday.  Licensed as an official hemp producer with the Department of Agriculture, the university will offer multiple classes surrounding hemp production and biological studies with plans to expand the minor into a major of study...

Many states that are legalizing marijuana have plans to help communities hurt by the war on drugs and create a legal weed industry reflective of those communities. But there needs to be more than “magical thinking” from regulators to get those businesses started, says Smoke Wallin, a board member of the U.S. Hemp Roundtable.

About 5,500 UConn students are moving in to their dorms two weeks before the start of classes to get tested for coronavirus and self-quarantine.