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Imagine, if you will: In an effort to be healthy, you take your morning supplemental tablespoon of incredibly nutritious hempseed oil, which you know to be high in essential fatty acids. But then, when you get to work, you find you have to take a routine drug test. You know that the poppy seed bagel you had might register a positive result, but should you also worry about your test coming out positive for THC, the chemical in marijuana that causes a "high"?

Not any more, thanks to new processing technology. In the past, foods made with hempseed contained small amounts of THC. When hempseed is harvested, a small amount of plant resin sticks to the outside of the seed's shell and this contains extremely small amounts of THC. Although the parts-per-million amount of THC is not enough to produce ...

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