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Scientists are sending cannabis seeds to space—but not to get high. Researchers plan to subject the seeds to radiation in orbit and see what happens, hoping to glean information that could one day help spacefarers grow crops on other planets.
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Scientists Are Sending Cannabis Seeds to Space

The versatile cannabis plant could, some scientists think, one day be useful for lunar and Martian colonists. For now, researchers will subject its seeds to radiation in orbit and see what happens.