Adventures in the hemp trade

By the time Finn Murphy made an offer of $1.2 million for 36 acres of irrigated pasture land a few miles north of Boulder, he had already read that it was possible to earn $100,000 an acre growing and selling hemp, and he had learned that there were at least 49,991 different uses for the plant.

Through research, he had also learned what such a crop costs from seed to harvest, and he quickly formed...