State officials approved three businesses Friday morning to grow, process and distribute industrial hemp in Washington state, according to a spokesman for the Washington Department of Agriculture. Hemp, the variety of cannabis that won’t get you high, but will do just about anything else, has not been legally grown in Washington state for nearly a century.
Lester Black is a former staff writer for The Stranger, where he wrote about Seattle news, cannabis, and beer. He is sometimes sober. More by Lester Black