Weber State OK’d a student growing hemp for his senior project. He could still be arrested for misusing.

Ogden • Jeff Colbert gets a lot of strange looks — and more than a few incredulous questions — when he talks about his research project.“Is that even legal?” some people ask him. “The university is letting you do what now?” others want to know.Sometimes he tries to explain, but mostly he laughs, too.Colbert came to Weber State University in northern Utah to study botany after nearly two decades of working in law enforcement. Now, he’s specializing i