“Advanced solar panels and more efficient electronics will make Mars stations more reliable for long term habitation, but you can’t eat electricity. People need food. People also need medicine.
Now what could be grown indoors, that would be an efficient source of nutrients and medicine for settlers?
You guessed it. Cannabis.
It would be much more efficient to grow your own medicine than spend millions of dollars to request a supply run from Earth. Especially a medicine that treats so many different ailments and issues.
No other plant is more complete in the nutrients needed for a healthy body.
In addition, growing hemp on Mars would provide a valuable building material, source of oxygen, and mind calming reassurance to people in a strange environment.
Strains of cannabis will likely be the first plants to successfully depend solely on natural Martian sunlight for survival.
On a planet so far from the Sun, leaves would need to be dark to absorb more light. Vietnamese strains have nearly black leaves. ...”
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https://herb.co/2016/03/05/how-cannabis-help-us-reach-the-stars/
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