Space botanists are beneficiaries of Canada's legal weed boom
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1HXFS)
It's hard to fund space exploration research -- the commercial applications are speculative and far-off -- but there's never been a better time to study super-efficient, closed-loop botany of the sort that will someday accompany human interplanetary missions, thanks to the need to develop better grow-ops for the burgeoning legal weed market in Canada. (more")