The cannabis of the future probably won’t come from plants
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The golden liquid is churned in six glass vessels, each connected to a computer via a bundle of tubes and wires. The air pumps are humming, and the room smells of bananas and stale beer. But this facility – I was allowed to see on the condition that I not use its name or location – is not a brewery. Its operators are making cannabis products using microbes instead of plants.
Humans have been cultivating hemp plants for thousands of years, first for their fiber and later…
