UTA's Racine Lab from pure science to profitable industry

Thirty years ago I met Mr Racine from France, at the inauguration of the Racine Root Laboratory in the University of Tel Aviv. It looked more or less like the pic below. I thought then that the money could be spent better on other lab. I was wrong and shortsighted, because the pic is from a commercial medical Cannabis plantation at Tirat Yehuda moshav, proving the vision of Mr Racine and the importance of apparently useless research. I feel so stupid and small...