13 Dec 2017

Ruatoria pushing to be first medicinal cannabis grower

From Nine To Noon, 11:20 am on 13 December 2017

Ruatoria-based charitable trust Hikurangi Enterprises is looking at developing hemp as a potential industry for medicinal cannabis. Last year they planted a trial of 5,000 low-THC hemp plants as a field crop. A group of students are now involved in the first-ever low-THC hemp course. Kathryn Ryan speaks with the trust's managing director Panapa Ehau.

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