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Margaret Atwood unveils sequel to 'The Handmaid's Tale'

"The Handmaid's Tale" has become a feminist rallying point for the #MeToo generation
Margaret Atwood released the much-anticipated sequel to her award-winning 1985 novel "The Handmaid's Tale" on Tuesday, with "The Testaments" set to become a similar smash.A terrifying, misogynistic dystopia set in the US northeast in the near-future, "The Handmaid's Tale" has been turned into a major television series and become a feminist rallying point for the #MeToo generation."It's a question of things escaping from a book to the real world and the author has zero control," Canadian author Atwood told a press conference in London.
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Lesotho-based company Medigrow cultivates cannabis legally for the medical marijuana industry

Lesotho, Africa's medical cannabis pioneer

Vast white greenhouses sit high up on the slopes of Lesotho's Marakabei town, hidden from view.It's not fruit or vegetables, however, growing under the 18 plastic covers, but thousands of cannabis plants.The cannabis is grown legally by the Lesotho-based company Medigrow and is regulated by the government."We have three rows that contain 1,200 plants each. That's 3,600 plants across the whole structure," said Medigrow's head of production Albert Theron, gazing proudly over the crop.

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