Beneficial Traits

n the same way farmers breed corn to be sweeter, plant breeders can coax the cannabis plant away from THC-laden marijuana into low-THC hemp. But it’s as much an art as it is a science, especially because research into hemp genetics stalled when the plant was basically banned in the 1930s. “It’s not like you can walk into True Value and buy CBD hemp seeds,” says Margaret MacKenzie of Collbran’s Salt Creek