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HEMP HEALS AMERICA 26

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Industrial hemp-based building materials can be used to build affordable – and in many ways, more desirable – residential and commercial structures. BY JIM WILLMOT

Last seen on farms during World War II, American hemp has come roaring back as highly therapeutic oil. Walk with us through the healing fields of Kentucky’s Atalo Holdings. BY DAVE CARPENTER

When pondering the African continent, most Americans are probably more apt to envision landscapes of Saharan deserts and dense jungles rather than arable fields of hemp. BY NICK JAKSIC

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CONTENTS/ issue 1

MISSION STATEMENT 12 LEGALIZE IT 23 As more U.S. states see the economic benefits of growing hemp, the prognosis for widespread legalization looks increasingly positive.

10 FAST FACTS 38 As hemp steps into the national spotlight, more people are beginning to ask important questions about exactly what hemp is and why there’s so much conflict around such a harmless and useful plant.

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BILLION DOLLAR CROP 40 Hemp ethanol production makes sense.

MANY USES OF HEMP 50 The stongest natural fiber on the planet.

HEMP HITS THE MAINSTREAM 42 From hemp hotdogs to the first hemp futures market, a new engine for economies around the globe is born, crushing long-standing taboos around industrial hemp.

PLANT-BASED SPA EXCURSION 62 Nature’s Root provides a heavenly spa outing with hemp grown in the USA.

BESPOKE HEMP PRODUCTS 46 Two hemp visionaries create the Etsy for hemp handcrafts.

HEMP VS. MARIJUANA 48 So what exactly is the difference between marijuana and hemp?

MAKING HEMP-DERIVED CBD OIL 66 Hemp processors around the globe are leaping into CBD oil production with a variety of methods ranging from CO2 pressure systems to chilled ethanol extraction.

SUSTAINABLE SMOOTHIES 68 Orange is the new green.

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If you’re reading this now, many of you probably already have some idea what an incredible natural resource cannabis varieties in the form of hemp are, and how they will continue to be as the steady acceptance of cannabis makes its way across the nation. Currently over 25,000 industrial hemp products exist worldwide, ranging from BMW car parts to hempcrete walls to wellness supplements and CBD oil.

While over the past decade national cannabis legalization in the form of medical and recreational marijuana has taken center stage, hemp has been regarded—at least in the mainstream media—as something of a bit player.

But nothing could be further from the truth.

Hemp has been a mainstay of farmers globally for millennia, dating back 10,000 years to harvests in China and Russia until 3000 BCE. Over the centuries, hemp has consistently supplied the world with rope and clothing and food sources. It was once the backbone of our nation’s economy from the very outset of the settlers’ appearance on North American soil, and made mandatory to grow in 1619 by the assembly of Jamestown Colony, Virginia.

Today we’re experiencing a real renaissance around the reality of hemp farming that’s sweeping the U.S. Enlightened lawmakers over 30 American

states now see hemp’s rebirth as a powerhouse cash crop and have enacted pro-hemp legislation accordingly. From Vermont to Hawaii, we now count 30 institutions of higher learning energetically involved in researching efforts around the hemp plant. It’s now fully legal to grow hemp in 17 U.S. states, and 15 of them are actively farming the plant.

It’s not an overstatement to say that hemp is about to change the world as it explodes onto the international scene. The U.S. economy’s acceptance of the plant as a vital commodity practically guarantees that.

In this premiere issue of Hemp Today we highlight and elucidate for you the innovation and excitement around the hemp plant. We take a look at plans for the first hemp airplane; the first hemp commodities trading market in the U.S. is established; and the company that looks to be the “Etsy for hemp artisans” sets up shop. We also follow cannabis editor Ricardo Baca from the Denver Post as he enjoys the pleasures of a hemp spa in Colorado. And we walk the healing fields with a CBD-hemp oil producer in Kentucky, where the country’s largest stock of curative CBD hemp supplement is about to hit the market.

We’re eager to bring you all the news that’s fit to print in the hemp space as this mega-industry takes root across the U.S. and the world.

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FORWARD IT’S N OT AN OVER STATEMENT TO SAY that industrial hemp is set to disrupt the world economy as it explodes onto the

international scene. Now with over 25,000 industrial hemp products available globally — ranging from car parts to hempcrete walls to wellness supplements — innovators are poised to create truly amazing products.

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HEMPCRET E HOM EB UI L D I N G During a rainy North Carolina weekend, people from Florida to Washington State gathered in the Smoky Mountains to learn about building with hemp. Skeptics as well as true-believers in all things hemp emerged from the weekend with a shared understanding: industrial hemp-based building materials can be used to build affordable – and in many ways, more desirable – residential and commercial structures. B y J i m W i l l m o t If the many attendees at a recent hempcrete workshop held in Asheville, North Carolina were any indication of the growing interest in using hemp as a building material, then this movement is growing as fast as –well– a weed. The workshop was conducted by industrial hemp diehards Anndrea Hermann, dubbed “the First Lady of Industrial Hemp,” and Joy Beckerman Maher, an activist intimately involved in guiding state and federal policy-makers towards creating viable hemp programs.

Seventeen states currently allow industrial hemp farming for research and/or commercial purposes.

However, the budding U.S. hemp industry is still presently lagging behind countries like Canada and China, who for years have been expanding their hemp productions.

For the environmentally-conscious builder, industrial hemp is a relatively untapped and limitless market.

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With an affordable housing crisis reaching near critical levels in many regions of the country, revival of the hemp industry could play an important role in lessening the mounting housing problem. Not to mention the viability of more than 25,000 hemp-based products on offer – from animal bedding to clothes to fuel to beauty products – and the jobs and wealth that this plant could create.

HEMPCRETE BUILDING BASICS

The fundamentals of building with hemp are centered around a simple “4:1:1 formula” – 4 parts industrial hemp, 1 part hydrated lime and 1 part water. Using the inner, woody core of the hemp plant (called hurd or shive) and carefully mixing it with hydrated lime and water, a most wonderful mixture called hempcrete is born.

After building wall forms or shutters around load-bearing timbers, one simply fills the forms

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DESIGNERS OF NAUHAUS SAY THEY’RE WORKING TO HELP REVAMP OUR MODERN BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND CREATE BEAUTIFUL, HEALTHY, LIVABLE SPACES THAT GRAPPLE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE WHILE IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF YOUR DAILY LIFE.

with this bioaggregate, about a foot deep at a time. By lightly tamping the outside of the walls, the wall’s exterior gains rigidity and strength while the wall’s interior remains as the original light, moist, loamy mix. After a few days, the hempcrete sets and the shutters can be removed and rebuilt at a higher level. The process is repeated until the walls reach roof level. A finishing lime plaster is then applied to seal the walls, which protects the walls from heavy moisture and still allows the walls to breath. Completed hemp walls, once finished with clear plaster, have an attractive look similar to coral reef.

A great example of what’s possible using hemp building materials is the Nauhaus built in Asheville – the first hempcrete structure in the U.S. to achieve LEED certification, a system that rates building sites on sustainability, indoor environmental quality and energy efficiency. Nauhaus’ lead designer Tim Callahan and his helpful team at Alembic Studios, who attended a portion of the hempcrete workshop, offered participants valuable tips for building with hemp.

Designers of Nauhaus say they’re working to help “revamp our modern built environment and create beautiful, healthy, livable spaces that grapple with climate change while improving the quality of your daily life.”

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MEASURED GROWTH

Hempcrete, while a versatile and durable material, still has some obstacles to overcome.

Because hempcrete building is in the infancy stage, experienced hemp-building contractors, architects and designers can be hard to find. The permitting process can also be painstaking, as many municipalities are unfamiliar with hemp construction, and since many hemp homes are one-off projects, the economies of scale that benefit traditional home building projects are still a ways in the future.

As the nascent industrial hemp industry continues to grow in the U.S., industrial hemp prices will no doubt drop, as will the price of hemp construction. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out in the next decade or two. A few U.S. states – Kentucky and Oregon in particular – are clamoring to expand their hemp industries, despite past resistance from the DEA and other law enforcement agencies, who for years have stood in the way of production.

Still, as more and more people engage with knowledgeable designers and contractors who incorporate the best in passive house design, people will discover that constructing these healthy, lowenergy hemp living spaces is a viable alternative to traditional homes.

It would be great to see more hempcrete, and hemp products in general, used across the nation.

Perhaps in the not too distant future, we might even see bales of hemp for sale at Home Depot – or better yet, at your local farmer’s market.

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Hempcrete is fire-resistant, termite-resistant, mold-resistant and rot-resistant.

Its high vapor permeability allows walls to breath and acts to regulate indoor air humidity. As hempcrete ages, it goes through the petrification process as the organic matter of the hemp hurd slowly turns into stone.

LIGHTWEIGHT

Since hempcrete is much lighter than concrete, foundations need not be as deep.

The pressure, or slump, on the lower part of wall forms or shutters is considerably less compared to building concrete walls.

I N S U L AT I V E

The incredibly high R-Value (insulative power) of hemp-built walls can lower energy costs significantly. A 12-inch wide hempcrete wall has an R value of 30 and a 16-inch wall has an R value of 40, while walls made using conventional home construction have R values in the 12 to 15 range.

V E R S AT I L E

Hempcrete lends itself to great creativity versatility. Some hemp home builders employ glass bottles and/or other decorative materials within the walls for additional lighting and for artistic appeal. Roofs can also be made out of Hempcrete.

H E A LT H F U L

The phrase “healthy house” is often used in connection with hemp buildings.

Hemp is non-toxic and has “breathability” – a term used to describe the various ways in which building materials deal with wicking away moisture.

DURABLE

Through proper maintenance, hemp houses can last several centuries, as have many in Europe and elsewhere around the globe.

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HE M Pon the R I S E As more U.S. states see the economic benefits of growing hemp, the prognosis for widespread legalization looks increasingly positive. The national stance on hemp, since voting in the “Legitimacy of Industrial Hemp Research Section of the 2014 Farm Bill,” looks particularly reassuring. Here’s a run-down of how the momentum for hemp is growing.

W H ERE HEMP I S LE GAL TO GROW

17 U.S. states have defined industrial hemp as distinct from marijuana and removed barriers to its production. They include: California*, Colorado, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan*, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia. * States where hemp is legal but not yet actively grown.

ACTI VELY FA RMING HE MP

15 U.S. states have had hemp “research crops” farmed in accordance with section 7606 and state law. That number is steadily growing every year since the 2014 Farm Bill.

R E SEA RC H I S T RE N D I N G

30 institutions of higher education are participating in hemp agricultural pilot programs nationwide, including Purdue University, Florida University and the University of Vermont.

LAW M A KE RS A RE WA RM I N G

32 states have pro-hemp legislation enacted, but not all of those states have pilot programs and/or may include language that is contingent on a federal law change. Until the Industrial Hemp Farming Act (S. 134, H.R. 525) is passed and becomes enacted, hemp farmers will be limited to acting in accordance with the “Legitimacy of Industrial Hemp Research Section of the 2014 Farm Bill.” #hemptoday 23

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A 2015 report by the Federation of American Scientists estimates the global market for industrial hemp consists of more than 25,000 products. Countries ranging from China to Romania to Canada are reaping billions of dollars from hemp production, some of which ends up imported into the United States. By contrast, the U.S. market is currently puny, estimated at $580 million of revenue annually.

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Farmers must be certified by and registered with the state department of agriculture and conducting research or a pilot program approved by the state department of agriculture.

Defines industrial hemp as “the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant, whether growing or not, with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.”

The U.S. House passed the hemp amendment in order to allow pilot programs and research to begin on industrial hemp and determine whether hemp farming would be beneficial for American farmers and businesses.

Authorizes “agricultural pilot programs” that “study the growth, cultivation or marketing of industrial hemp.”

Thus, sales and marketing of hemp raw materials is allowed under the research and pilot programs authorized in Section 7606.

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H EMP heals AMERICA

Last seen during World War II, American hemp has come roaring back as highly therapeutic oil. Walk the healing fields of Kentucky’s Atalo Holdings.

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in the living room of their family farmhouse in Lexington, Kentucky, a home they’ve built over 70 years together, surrounded by family who watch Glenna’s hands shake with the tremors of advanced age.

“For the last 30 years or so, she’s had really bad tremors,” her son Andy Graves, 58, says. “Her hands shake all the time.

In fact, she couldn’t hold a cup of water still if she tried.”

Glenna and Jake have lived here close to the fertile Kentucky soil through the Great Depression and World War II, growing hemp for the war effort as part of their civic duty. Jake is a 6th generation Kentucky hemp farmer who’s labored his entire life and is now enjoying the fruits of his labor with Glenna and their eight grown children nearby.

Glenna nibbles the corner of an edible cookie prepared with oil derived from Kentucky hemp. Andy brought it over.

Glenna waits for the hemp edible to take effect as friends and family mill about the living room. In time, the room grows quiet as someone notices Glenna’s hands become still.

For the first time in 30 years the tremors completely subside.

“It was nothing short of amazing,” says Andy Graves.

“She lifted up a glass of water and held it in the air. Then she put it down and picked it up again and there was not the least bit of shaking.”

Not a person in the room can believe what they’re seeing.

Many in the room are brought to tears. Glenna’s husband Jake can hardly believe it. His wife’s hands that have shuddered and twitched by his side for over three decades are now calmed. A look of concern slowly draws over the nonagenarian’s face. “But son,” says Jake, “what will we do when the medicine runs out?”

“Daddy, don’t worry,” says Andy. “We have drums of this stuff filled to rafters.”

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HEMP ACROSS THE HEARTLAND Hemp is not marijuana. Both are types of cannabis, but one is a fiber, fuel and food crop, the other gets you stoned.

For years now, marijuana advocates have known that many of the compounds present in the cannabis plant — hemp and medical marijuana — have the ability to lessen the symptoms of neurological disorders. The Graves are one of hundreds of thousands of families looking for relief from a variety of ailments. They just happen to be sitting on the biggest stocks of curative hemp-based oil America has ever seen.

This year, across the American heartland, hemp is being farmed in larger numbers than ever before. From Oregon to Kentucky, farmers ramped up production on fields that once produced tobacco, soy and corn. With those industries hit hard by economic shifts, hemp legalization is arriving in the nick of time.

Since the fateful signing of the Omnibus Farm Bill in 2014, which included an amendment allowing farmers to grow hemp as a “pilot program,” the crop is officially back after nearly 70 years as an illegal substance. And at long last, large amounts of hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) – the potentially curative compound found in marijuana and hemp – is becoming available across the nation. Recognized as a neuro-protectant, anti-inflammatory and more, CBD has been documented as a cure for maladies ranging from Parkinson’s Syndrome to fibromyalgia to ADHD. At the present, 31 U.S. states have defined industrial hemp as “distinct from marijuana and removed barriers to its production,” says Vote Hemp, a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to the acceptance of and free market for industrial hemp. In 2015, seven states had hemp “research crops” in accordance with section 7606 and state law. And that year also saw five states – Colorado, Kentucky, Oregon, Tennessee PHOTO BEN DROZ

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CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE Myrna and Michael Andersen, parents of five-year-old daughter Makaela, first heard about CBD oil during the spring of 2015.

News of a non-toxic, potential treatment for rare nerve diseases had been splashed across headlines nationwide. The two wanted to know more about this apparent miracle drug. Their daughter was diagnosed with the neurological disorder Charcot Marie Tooth disease and doctors had all but given up on traditional medications. There is no known cure. Before long,

million of revenue annually.

It’s perhaps this fact that many billions of dollars have been lost to the U.S. economy, along with decades of hard work by pro-hemp advocates across the country, that eventually led to the “Legitimacy of Industrial Hemp Research Section” to be included in the Farm Bill. The amendment freed farmers to grow hemp as a “pilot program,” in conjunction with state agricultural departments and universities, with the caveat that varieties could contain no more than 0.3 percent THC. At a time when the American public is reaching a greater understanding of cannabis as a healing agent, it appears the stigma that once hung over the plant and its use is ebbing. What it might mean as a new therapeutic modality for the aging and infirm could have far reaching implications with untold positive outcomes.

the Andersen’s found an organization that was having success administering CBD to children with epilepsy and they managed to get Makaela on their waiting list.

“We were relieved to finally find a medical doctor who knew about CBD,” says Myrna.

“We were really pretty desperate for help, and definitely wanted to see a medical doctor who could potentially administer this medicine.”

Unlike the story of “Brave Mykayla” — a celebrity pediatric cannabis patient — the Andersens would find themselves making no progress at all and languished on a long waiting list with not a doctor’s appointment in sight.

During that period, they’d missed a call from the CBD clinic while attending a crucial specialeducation meeting. Missing that call dropped them to the bottom of the already lengthy list, where they remain today.

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REVIVING A (NEARLY) LOST CROP Driving north on I-75 through the hills of southern Kentucky feels like careening down a giant zip line through a vast jungle landscape.

Just five feet off the shoulder the road is gobbled up by an endless, tangled wilderness of vegetation as far as the eye can see. The earth here practically pulsates with energy from the fertile soil. Locals will tell you “it’s in the water and the limestone.”

Up ahead roughly 90 miles towards Lexington is America’s new gushing well of CBD hemp oil, right smack dab in the heart of hemp country – once called the “Hemp Capital of the World.”

The history of hemp farming in the Bluegrass State goes back as far as the 1700s, before the region was a state and was a territory within the Commonwealth of Virginia. Early pioneers who settled the area found a need for materials to make clothing, as well as other fabrics and cordage. They discovered that the soil in and around Lexington proved perfect to grow hemp. The state’s geological riches sprout from a combination of high mineral content in the soil due to a massive limestone shelf beneath much of the state along with its fortunate location at the “Goldie Locks” latitude between 30-40 degrees, where much of the world’s high value crops are grown. While today much of the U.S. population remains relatively uninformed about industrial hemp, most Kentuckians have

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and Vermont – with actual “licensed or registered farmers” able to put hemp in the ground protected by state law.

America has some serious catching up to do.

A 2015 report by the Federation of American Scientists estimates the global market for industrial hemp consists of more than 25,000 products and countries ranging from China to Romania to Canada reap billions of dollars from hemp production, some of which ends up imported into the United States. By contrast, the U.S. market is puny, estimated at $580

“It was devastating to finally see a light at the end of the tunnel then get put on what felt like an endless list,” says Michael.

This family isn’t alone. Their daughter is one of many people waiting to be seen by physicians who have their hands full treating people interested in CBD and only so much time and product to dedicate to patients. The backlog of individuals stems from tight state regulations around the administration of medical cannabis to children, complicated by the fact that the CBD is still considered by the Federal government to be a Schedule I drug “with currently no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” This is, however, believed to be a fallacy, as evidenced by countless anecdotal success stories logged from Utah to Vermont touting the compound’s efficacy as a neuroprotectant.

Makaela’s story is not an uncommon one.

Caught in the middle of a societal shift in opinions regarding cannabis use alongside a broken healthcare system, many patients find themselves stuck in the middle of a medical gray area waiting for help that in some cases never comes – until recently, when CBD derived from industrial hemp entered the national picture. That change is now allowing the compound to be sold as a “dietary supplement,” making domestic CBD ever-more available to people like Makaela’s family and the public at large for the first time in U.S. history.

Left: Andy Graves standing in one of the Atalo Holding’s farmer member hemp fields in Kentucky. Bottom: Farmer Gary Hilliard tends to his CBD-rich hemp fields.

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Below: Seed breeder Tom Hutchens standing in front of his many CBD-rich Hemp stalks.

it deep in their heritage, like Texans do cattle.

Just east of Lexington, the signs on the road turn quintessentially Kentucky.

In my path is “Bourbon County,” the home of the celebrated spirit sold the world over; “Man o’ War Boulevard,” named after the famed racehorse, is a 17-mile urban artery that encircles Lexington. Heading east, the pretty rolling hills to my left and right, called “knobs,” are blanketed with the most uniform grass imaginable, like fresh turf laid out over a lawn the size of an entire town. Uninterrupted green goes on and on and on.

Pulling into my destination at the Hemp Research Campus in Winchester, I see for the first time since entering Kentucky the letters H-E-M-P spelled out on the front marquee. Seeing that word in public feels like a small triumph for a plant that remains on the federal government’s Schedule I listing and could still today find you imprisoned for its possession in nearly 20 U.S. states.

The 147-acre plot I’m entering once housed the F.W. Rickard Seed Company, a renowned producer of burley tobacco

grown in Kentucky for more than 75 years. The campus, outfitted with all the tools necessary for hemp product manufacture – breeding rooms, seed cleaners, oil extraction facilities – is as apropos a location as possible for this newly resurrected, sustainable crop that could potentially fill the void that the waning tobacco industry has left behind.

The first person I meet is Andy Graves – the son of Jake Graves – a seventh generation hemp farmer and Chairman of Atalo Holdings, a hemp research and development consortium that currently works with 58 recently minted farmers of industrial hemp in Kentucky. He is a sensible man, and like most farmers has his feet planted firmly on the solid earth. For over 20 years Graves has been certain hemp could and should make its way back onto Kentucky farms. More than a few times, he has heard talk about himself, with people wondering, “why this kid with a good family reputation would be mixed up in a business like hemp legalization.”

It’s plain to see Graves’ drive to help Americans understand hemp’s utility and to get this industry up and running again. He is a man who wants his heritage back and knows it could kickstart the Kentucky economy again like it did in centuries past. Graves’ energy is endless. At the same time that he is overseeing his family’s agricultural enterprises for 30-plus years – tending cattle and growing soybeans, wheat, corn and tobacco – he runs a steady masonry business that pays the bills. As if that weren’t enough, he’s also spent the past two decades leading efforts to legalize and re-commercialize industrial Right: Master CBD farmer Steve Jones

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hemp, he says, “after seeing the writing on the wall that tobacco farming would be seen less and less in the state.”

While the plant has been illegal to grow and out of sight in the U.S. for much of Graves’ life, it’s made an indelible mark on his DNA. “Dad farmed hemp as a young man and grew it for the World War II ‘Hemp for Victory’ program,” says Graves, which compelled hemp farmers to supply rigging for Navy warships.

Federal marshals confiscated the family’s hemp seed and some of their land in 1942 for military use and never returned it.

For two decades Graves has been compelling Kentucky politicians to give farmers another option for growing this viable commodity. In his work from 1994-2000, he served as president of the Kentucky Hemp Growers Cooperative Association and acted as a board member of the North American Industrial Hemp Council. He tells how he and his father would regularly visit government officials – Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell being one of them, who recognized Andy’s father but took years to come around to the idea that hemp would be good for the Kentucky economy. In the end, the conservative senator would later prove to be instrumental in helping to bring back hemp farming to Kentucky.

“Today, oddly enough,” says Graves, “hemp legalization is probably going to be Mitch McConnell’s greatest legacy to our state.”

RETURN OF THE HEMPIRE In 2013, when it looked like a Farm Bill might be passed that would include hemp legalization, Graves visited respected seed breeder and colleague Tom Hutchens, 72, who for over 30 years was employed by F.W. Rickard Seed Company. During his time there, Hutchens led the company to become the world’s foremost burley tobacco seed breeder, controlling 85-90 percent of the globe’s certified burley tobacco seed market. His pursuits as a seedsman developing seed cultivars also led Hutchens to personally hold a U.S. patent for an air curing system that reduces tobacco-specific “nitrosamines,” the cancer-producing elements of cigarettes.

Hutchens is the consummate agriculturalist with hands that look like the raw earth itself.

There’s a durableness in them that speaks of generations tilling the rich Kentucky soil. In those appendages and in his eyes you can see a man who has worked the land from sun up to sun down with little complaint. Sporting jeans and a tucked in collar shirt, he’s got the sleeves rolled back and ready for work. We’re chatting at the Winchester research campus as he’s telling me the story of his son who was diagnosed as a teenager with Tourette’s Syndrome, one of only five kids in Kentucky at that time identified as having the ailment.

“I learned that my son was self-medicating with cannabis,” says Hutchens. “It was apparently the only thing that made him feel okay.

The rest of the time, he was having to work to remain in control.”

Hutchens turned his son in to the police four times after catching him smoking marijuana, before he fully understood why the boy relied on the substance simply to cope.

“One of the things that I learned about my son over the years was that his medicines work for a while and then they’ll become ineffective,” says Hutchens. “I see this out in the general public with a lot of folks. There is no norm really. We all have our uniquenesses, and some folk’s uniqueness doesn’t fit with what ‘normal’ folks are and they have a much tougher time fitting into the societal parameters of what normal might be.”

Hutchens admits that he “grew from that experience with his boy. It changed my life from being a black-and-white person to being very gray.”

“One of my real aspirations, is to have CBD not [completely] solve people’s problems, but to help them to be able to function with various kinds of neurological and physical issues. I believe this plant can help us do that.”

That experience, he says, is one of the variables that eventually led him to work with Graves on the hemp project. The fortunate nexus of Hutchens’ retirement from tobacco, his union with Atalo and the U.S. government’s inclusion of hemp legalization into the Farm

Bill of 2014 perfectly dovetailed into his future aspirations: to work with a plant that could, as he says, “potentially heal people rather than one that has historically harmed people.”

“I found Tom retired and on his couch with a remote control in his hand,” says Graves, “and I said, ‘C’mon, work with us to get this crop back.’”

It didn’t take much prodding to convince Hutchens to come onboard. His unparalleled knowledge as a seed breeder would be key to developing new varieties of hemp in the nascent program. Before long Atalo Holdings was in motion and had moved into the old F.W. Rickard property and the “Winchester Hemp Research Campus” was formed – the ultimate symbol of rebirth for this industry that was lost for nearly 70 years, but is now safely back at home.

“We were pretty certain that the models for grain and tobacco production could be applied to hemp production,” says Hutchens.

Currently, over half of the roughly 4,500 acres of hemp grown in Kentucky this year is made up of Atalo’s “farmer members” group, which numbers 58 individuals, all with access to Atalo’s seed, technology and markets for their production.

Visiting a few of those farmers it’s evident to see the symbiotic relationship that has developed between Atalo and its contracted members.

One farmer member is Steve Jones, 56, whose family has farmed burley tobacco and tended milk cows in Bourbon County since 1968. He first began farming CBD-rich hemp along with Atalo in 2015. After signing a memo from the Kentucky Department of Agriculture (KDA) to legally farm hemp under Section 7606, Jones put plants in the ground. He’s only gone through one full season that started out a bit rough. The DEA held his seed at the

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TOP LEFT: A store of hemp seed awaits cleaning BOTTOM: A cold-press extraction machine.

RIGHT: CBD-rich hemp oil after the chilled ethanol extraction process.

Canadian border for months, then there torrential rains pummeled the new crop.

“It was good, though, considering what we went through,” he says about the nine inches of rain they received over three days just after planting and the DEA’s seed meddling. “Still, it was a good year for the first year.”

This planting season, so far unimpeded by government officials or weather, Jones feels similarly optimistic.

“We’re just steadily trying to figure out how to grow it, process it and harvest it,” he says. “We’re learning.”

Another farmer, Gary Hilliard, 32, is growing CBD-rich hemp for his second year but as a rotation crop on his organic wheat farm. He was searching for another crop to use in rotation between his wheat crops that was also grown with organic practices in mind and Atalo’s approach of refraining from pesticide or fungicide use fit the bill. “I think it’s one of the more useful crops in terms of just what you can use it for,” he says.

Hilliard said he’s also impressed with the way the state of Kentucky decided not to pursue medical marijuana legalization, which he believes could have muddied the political waters and made the issue of hemp legalization a more complex sell to the public.

I find his sentiment rings perfectly true when I attempt to reach the University of Kentucky’s Industrial Hemp Research Program and get a very polite reply telling me they’d rather not participate in this article.

“Considering the extremely negative political climate in Kentucky regarding all things cannabis except those lines producing less than 0.3% THC,” said the email response, “I must respectfully decline your offer for an interview. It is imperative that our research program remain distinctly unconnected to anything related to marijuana.”

Hilliard also gives credit to government officials for removing most of the barriers for farmers to get plants

in the ground and giving this renewed industry every opportunity to thrive from the start.

Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture Ryan Quarles, who refers to hemp as “a bridge from Kentucky’s past to our future,” said, “The Kentucky Department of Agriculture and our partners are committed to building upon the solid foundation of research for a Kentucky hemp industry that will create jobs and new marketing opportunities.”

The programs growing popularity – which increased exponentially from 33 acres in 2014 to 1762 acres in 2015 to now 4500 acres in 2016 – predicts long-term stability for the program.

“I don’t say this much,” says Hilliard, “but I feel our politicians really got it right here.”

THE CBD OIL WELL I’ve been shown around most of the hemp research campus by Graves and Hutchens but have yet to view where the crown jewel of CBD extraction takes place.

Both men have struck me as gentleman farmers, each with his own respectable, steady history in the Lexington farm community. Each has been very open in his own way to discuss his personal connection with the hemp plant. All of the other members I’ve met at Atalo, as well, from the business development team to farmers, are a similar brand of hardy people – industrious, helpful folks who in a pinch could probably fix a busted tractor engine with some baling wire and a pair of pliers. They drive beat up SUVs and wear boots caked with mud. But for a better part of the day, I’ve anxiously awaited the arrival of the extractor who’s been hired to take many thousands of pounds of hemp plant matter and extract from it the coveted CBD oil.

In my mind’s eye I picture a farmer in his 50s with a Southern twang and some connection to the Department

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of Agriculture. When a bearded, 30-something Robert Gaither walks into the room casually dressed, I reflexively do a doubletake realizing that the CBD extractor is actually a California native who could comfortably fit into a room of Humboldt heads chatting about the next killer marijuana strain. He greets me and says he’s familiar with Cannabis Now Magazine. After just a few moments chatting with Gaither, it’s clear he has an expansive knowledge of the marijuana cultivation scene and deep experience as a concentrate extractor. Gaither’s company Genius Extraction Technologies, cofounded along with his wife Brenna who holds a bio-chemistry degree, is an extraction equipment company that uses the process of “chilled ethanol extraction.”

Graves explains that they hired Genius Extraction for a few particular reasons, most notably they’re the only extractor in the U.S. to hold an OSHA-compliant, certified Class I/Division II explosion-proof processing license.

Having grown cannabis for many years, they have a deep understanding of the cannabis plant and know an efficient and safe process by which to extract CBD from the hemp plant.

Touring through the campus we eventually make our way into the lab where the actual oil is manufactured. Glass beakers, test tubes and stainless steel machinery surround

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us. There are glass coils, filters and items I have no name for, most of it a confusing Rube Goldberg circuit of vacuum gauges and dials.

Gaither explains that the process of extraction involves removing fatty acids and lipids from the plant matter using chilled alcohol.

Here, he says pointing, is where they’ll take ground up flower and leaf matter and dip it into alcohol chilled at 15 degrees Celsius. Over there is where the frozen fats and lipids with chlorophyll are suspended in a solution and filtered through, revealing a material, says Gaither, “with the texture of a warm candle that smells like rich cannabis.”

Oil collection will occur in different stages and be filtered at each point in the system using a vacuum process rather than the more prevalent pressure system of CO2 extraction. Essentially filtering out impurities like a stainless steel reverse-osmosis water system, the industrial-size device is perfect for Atalo’s “small-batch” approach to extraction. But that doesn’t mean they will be extracting matter slowly. The team talks about extracting a staggering 100 pounds of plant matter per hour, citing others in the industry extracting at a rate of about 10-15 pounds per hour using CO2-extraction methods. Graves feels they can be at 200 pounds by the end of this year. Gaither is looking up at the 55-gallon drums of hemp stacked

floor to ceiling and I think I see on his face a tiny amount of trepidation as he does the math. That look quickly turns to resolve and he says, “We can do that. We will do that.”

We walk back through the storage area of the laboratory, where 40,000 pounds of certified, proprietary CBD-rich plant matter, bred specifically for that high content, is stacked up in scores of 55-gallon drums. Gaither digs into a barrel and holds some of the plant matter in his hands gesturing for me to take a whiff.

“Do you smell that?” he says crushing the ground bud between his palms. “This hemp has a cannabis hayback, a sweet smell like cut lawn, orange citrus, lavender… there’s a lot happening there. It’s incredibly terpy,” he says referring to the terpenes, or essential oils of the plant, that give off fragrances.

Graves laughs as the extractor and I breathe in the ground-up hemp. For a moment I wonder if Graves minds this collision of the hemp and marijuana worlds. When Gaither admits that he rolls and smokes the hemp regularly to test different levels, I realize I haven’t breached etiquette one bit.

“Don’t you think a vintner drinks the wine he makes?” says Graves. “Well, Robert is like our vintner.”

As we begin to wrap up our time together, Graves explains to me that the name they’ve come up

with for their CBD oil product is LifeLeaf, named for the calming effect the plant had on his mother’s tremors.

“This leaf gave her life,” he says.

Glenda’s still got all the aches and pains of a 90-year-old, and has been in and out of the hospital lately, but she’s doing ok, Andy says. The tremors go away when she has CBD and she takes regular low doses. It hasn’t cured her completely but has made life a little better.

Hutchens offers to drive me out to have a closer look at a beautiful old barn we’ve been passing by all day on the campus. The setting sun is casting a warm glow across the farm and lighting up the old tobacco barn – a structure that looks to have seen more years than Hutchens and I combined.

Standing beside a great mound of sheared industrial hemp stalks reminiscent of Claude Monet’s “Haystacks” paintings, the farmer brings up his son again and his struggles with Tourette’s Syndrome and how it changed him and his opinions about cannabis in general.

“I really grew through that experience with my boy,” says Hutchens. “We have to be much more understanding of people and we need many more tools to work within that. One of my goals with this is to see hemp seed available in every school lunchroom in the country.”

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Members of the Atalo Holdings team.

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1. HEMP CULTIVATION DATES BACK MORE THAN 10,000 YEARS.

Many civilizations across human history have grown hemp and utilized the plant for various purposes, from eating it to using its fibers. The ancient use of hemp has been traced to many countries including China, Egypt, Russia, Greece and Italy.

2. IT USED TO BE ILLEGAL TO NOT GROW HEMP.

There was once a time in American history when farmers could be fined or jailed for not growing hemp. Because it was such a valuable crop in Virginia, the Assembly of Jamestown Colony passed legislation in 1619 making it mandatory for every farmer to grow Indian hempseed.

3. HEMP WAS HAILED AS A BILLION-DOLLAR CROP BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT BANNED IT.

In an article written in 1938, “Popular Mechanics” declared hemp a new cash crop. It was touted as the standard fiber of the world because it was easy to grow and could replace imported materials and manufactured products.

abundance of nutrients found in hemp oil can help. It’s packed with antioxidants, vitamins and minerals including magnesium, calcium, vitamin E and carotene. When it comes to oils, hemp oil also has the highest level of polyunsaturated fats (healthy fats) at 80 percent, with flax seed oil coming in second.

6. MANY EARLY ARTISTS MADE ART ON HEMP.

The word “canvas” is derived from the word cannapaceus, a Latin adjective that literally means “made from hemp.” For centuries, painters used hemp canvases, most notably Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

7. HEMP IS CURRENTLY LEGAL TO GROW IN 17 STATES, AND 32 STATES HAVE PRO-HEMP LEGISLATION PRESENTLY ENACTED.

According to recent agricultural reports, it is lawful to grow hemp in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia.

8. PLANES CAN BE MADE FROM HEMP.

BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH A VALUABLE CROP IN VIRGINIA, THE ASSEMBLY OF JAMESTOWN COLONY PASSED LEGISLATION IN 1619 MAKING IT MANDATORY FOR EVERY FARMER TO GROW INDIAN HEMPSEED. 4. HEMP CAN RESTORE UNHEALTHY SOIL.

Thanks to its botanical properties, hemp can improve the soil it is planted in by rejuvenating the dirt with nutrients and nitrogen. Through a process called phytoremediation, the nutrients and nitrogen from the hemp help clean up toxins, heavy metals and other pollutants from the ground.

5. HEMP OIL IS GOOD FOR YOU.

For people looking to reduce bad cholesterol levels, neutralize free radicals and improve nervous system function, the

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Earlier this year, Derek Kesek, the founder of Hempearth, announced that he would produce the very first airplane made almost entirely of hemp that will run on hemp-based biodiesel.

Though the project has yet to take flight, many have high hopes about what its successful execution could mean for the future.

9. ANNUAL RETAIL SALES FOR HEMP GREW 21 PERCENT LAST YEAR.

People across America are starting to incorporate the plant into their lives in a big way. In 2014, a total of $620 million worth of hemp products sold in the U.S. alone, with food and personal care items totaling about $200 million.

10. HEMP IS USED IN OVER 25,000 PRODUCTS.

Although it may seem like hemp has been hiding out, the multifaceted fiber is used in everything from suits by Giorgio Armani to interior car parts by BMW. Hemp can also be found in everyday items like yarn, paper, carpeting, cosmetics, nutritional supplements and body care products.

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HE MPhits the MAINSTR E AM From hemp hotdogs to the first hemp futures market, a new engine for economies around the globe is born, crushing long-standing taboos around industrial hemp.

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OVER THE PAST 20 YEA R S, the legalization of industrial hemp in developed nations has slowly increased crop production

and promotion of hemp materials for textiles, health foods and building materials. But even with that growth, the industry still faces some challenges, mostly spurred through U.S. regulation. However, the versatility of the crop and the recent legislation in the U.S. mean that the industry is promising for research, innovation and small-business development. The following company profiles highlight some of our top picks for industry leaders making great progress in this emerging market.

K E N T U C K Y H E M P WO R K S / Kentucky kentuckyhempworks.com

Family-owned and female-operated Kentucky Hemp Works grows and processes cold-pressed hemp seed oil, protein powder, salve, lip balm and fire-starter packs. The company has also increased demand for their harvested and processed hemp, providing material to local spirit distilleries, breweries and pet food makers.

Founders Katie Moyer and her mother, Janine, do more than just grow and process hemp, they also help support the efforts of future hemp farmers through educational tours and advocacy.

Through her work as a member of the Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission, Katie has helped pave the way for Kentucky’s hemp legislative progress.

T R E E F R E E H E M P / Colorado treefreehemp.com

TreeFreeHemp provides hemp-blended paper products, custom hemp printing services and eco-friendly hemp packaging. Hemp products range from posters to DVD sleeves to calendars, as well as a host of other hemp-manufactured paper goods.

TreeFreeHemp has also been steadily working on the development of the first USA-grown, processed and manufactured hemp paper brand for nearly two years, and they have almost reached their goal. Soon, TreeFreeHemp will be releasing “HempStalk” paper, Colorado-grown handmade artisan hemp paper, made with pure hemp pulp fresh from American soil.

S E E D C X / Illinois seedcx.com

Seed CX is helping to legitimize hemp as a commodity and economic driver in the U.S. by lessening the risk that new commodities face when they enter a shifting marketplace looking for a secure platform for their goods. SeedCX provides risk mitigation tools like derivatives contracts (futures, swaps and options) and a digital marketplace where industrial hemp participants can exchange products in a secure environment. SeedCX recently received regulatory approval from the futures and swaps market, the Commodities Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC), which was the first time a federal body has accepted hemp as a legitimate crop. The CFTC is a vital aspect of the U.S economy and system for businesses and investors to manage financial pitfalls, and hemp’s inclusion in the CFTC is a major milestone for the industry’s development.

C A N N A B I S AC T I V I S T C L O T H I N G / Utah cannabisactivist.com

Cannabis Activist Clothing is designed to stylishly support the validation of cannabis, including industrial hemp, as legalization of the plant makes its steady, sensible march across the world.

Made with high quality fabrics – their most popular being manufactured with a blend of 55 percent organic hemp, 45 percent organic cotton – Cannabis Activist Clothing’s line includes everything from hats and T-shirts to sundresses and totes. The hemp

fiber guarantees that materials will not shrink and all apparel is durable, breathable and water absorbent. The more these products are worn, the softer they feel.

H E M P O R I U M / South Africa hemporium.co.za

A provider of hemp textiles, clothing, body-care products, accessories, nutrition and construction materials, Hemporium imports raw hemp materials and works with local industry to produce products in small factories around Cape Town. Because South African law currently only permits industrial hemp production under stringently controlled research conditions, Hemporium’s founders, Tony Budden and Duncan Parker, say the company often finds itself in an identity crisis. But that hasn’t prevented them from making serious legislative changes in South African hemp policy.

The two believe that hemp will do more than fit into an eco-niche in South Africa, but could become a life-saving staple for the masses.

S Y N E R M U L C H / Alberta, Canada synermulch.com

As a designer, manufacturer and distributer of hydraulic erosion control and vegetation establishment products, Synermulch uses a variety of materials including wood cellulose, wood fibers and bast fibers like hemp and flax. Located in the heart of Canada’s oil country and servicing markets like reclamation, industrial, commercial and residential, the company designs custom products specific to various industries. As Canada experiences its 20th anniversary of hemp legalization, the stigma of hemp in the country has diminished considerably making use of their products less taboo. As neighboring U.S. continues to legalize and accept industrial hemp as a viable resource, Synermulch’s market share will surely grow.

V I C TO RY H E M P F O O D S / Kentucky victoryhempfoods.com

Victory Hemp Foods distributes their Kentucky-grown hemp food products to natural food retailers, direct to food manufacturers and through online sales. Their product line includes hemp oil, hemp protein powder, hemp hearts and hemp honey, with some other interesting products expected in 2017. Founder Chad Rosen says Kentucky’s hemp pilot program has been straightforward, but one of his customers and Victory Hemp Foods hit a roadblock earlier this year when they tried to obtain federal approval of a hot dog containing hemp seeds, hemp oil and hemp protein.

Rosen explains that they worked with beef producer and Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie and, eventually, they received the USDA’s certification stamp of approval under one condition: the hot dog could contain other forms of hemp but not hemp protein powder. The product was previewed at the Kentucky State Fair in August last year.

Compiled by Annie Rouse, U.S. Fulbright Scholar and Founder of Think Hempy Thoughts, LLC.

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HEM P AR T I SA N S an d B E YO ND Two hemp visionaries create the Etsy for hemp handcrafts.

A few decades back, if you were thinking about purchasing hemp products in the United States, a certain kind of stereotypical image probably jumped into your mind.

Something akin to a pair of beach-bum feet sporting a decidedly unfashionable set of rope sandals made of hemp – or maybe hemp soap that smelled like wet hay.

Not so today. Quality and upscale industrial hemp products are now hitting shelves with incredible frequency and blowing the minds of consumers. From designer hempbased topical lotions to chic clothing to hemp-constructed homes, industrial hemp is growing up.

So it’s no wonder that artists, too, have seized on this new medium – with its uber-utility, carbon-cutting abilities and natural beauty – to produce everything from couture dresses and makeup to sports car frames.

Enter Hemptsy.com, the brainchild of hemp futurists Doug Fine and Mike Lewis. The innovative co-founders of the site have assembled a web marketplace for artisans who create works from the soil. Similar to the popular website Etsy.com, a peer-to-peer e-commerce website focused on handmade and vintage items, Hemptsy is an online bazaar for “artisans whose work derives not just from hemp, but from any product that starts in the soil.”

Says co-founder Fine, the bestselling author of “Hemp Bound” and “First Legal Harvest” and a longtime hemp activist, “If shoppers want a unique gift – or a kitchen staple – that supports regenerative artisans worldwide, they now have that option.”

While hemp farming is legal in a minority of U.S. states, more than 30 nations currently grow industrial hemp as an agricultural commodity, including Kazakhstan, China, Romania and Switzerland. Classified in the U.S. during the 20th century as a Schedule I drug alongside marijuana (though hemp is the non-psychoactive sibling to the plant), it has been largely outlawed across the nation and has subsequently robbed the U.S. of a billion-dollar industry.

A 2015 report by the Federation of American Scientists posited that the global market for industrial hemp consists of more than 25,000 products and the U.S. market alone claims an estimated $580 million of revenue annually.

That figure is surely growing, say Lewis and Fine, as retail hemp sales are expected to cross the $1 billion mark in 2017.

While that’s great news for the hemp industry and terrific for farmers, the duo has their sights set on a global scale to assist artisans worldwide with making the most of the digital age.

Fine was traveling the world for an upcoming hemp TV series when he saw a desperate need for something like Hemptsy.com.

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“My work in nearly every facet of international journalism has taught me that the future of humanity resides in independent folk who work the soil,” he says. “It’s a climate-carbon thing. Most of us get that. The rest soon will. As hemp and other biomaterials take on a major role in the industrial supply chain, we’re trying to ensure that the independent artisan – whose product derives from a regenerative, soil-based source – has an opportunity to display his or her wares.”

The creation of Hemptsy is certainly a harbinger of good tidings for hemp, coming at a time when cannabis prohibitionists are releasing their grip on the plant once regularly harvested by George Washington and considered legal tender by the founding fathers. Current widespread interest in industrial hemp products is helping to reinvigorate hemp farming and has hastened legalization efforts in 17 states across the U.S. from Hawaii to Maine.

Kentucky farmer and craftsman Cody Gibbons, 29, has been waiting a long time for a site like Hemptsy. “I’m listing my lip balm and beard oil on Hemptsy because there’s no marketplace like it,” he says. “I want to live a rural life and support a family doing what I love.”

The site’s co-founder Lewis, a Kentucky hemp farmer and veteran who’s also a graduate student under legendary environmentalist Wendell Berry, says that the things that drew him to hemp were the sense of community in the industry and the potential to change the way Americans conduct business.

“Business as usual will not solve our planet’s problems,” says Lewis. “By considering how and why things are made in our purchasing decisions, we become reconnected, empowered consumers who recognize our place in the larger picture.”

Artisans can upload their wares on Hemptsy.com at the very affordable price of 30 cents per product for six months and as artisans fulfill orders, Hemptsy keeps 3 percent of sales.

“The plan is to make this as friendly to the artisans as possible, and always work to make it even friendlier,” says Lewis. “We’re all in this together.”

This story is courtesy of Cannabis Now Magazine.

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Psychotropic Effects:

Potency

Flowers cause psychotropic effects.

Contains more than 0.3% THC,

by U.S. law, but traditionally between 5% and 30% THC.

Seeds Used For

Reproduction, but otherwise considered a nuisance with potential to ruin flowering crops.

Designation

Called alternately Cannabis indica and Cannabis sativa depending on region of variety.

Grown For

Flowers for recreational or medicinal consumption.

Health Benefits

MAR IJUANA Most Common Phytocannabinoid:

Contains cannabinoids known to relieve chronic pain – including neuropathic pain, nausea, spasticity, glaucoma and movement disorders, to name a few.

THC

Stalk Usage

Beneficial for core material for pulp, animal bedding or hempcrete.

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Psychotropic Effects: No part of the plant will cause psychotropic effects.

VS.

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Most Common Phytocannabinoid:

Seeds Used For

CBD

Health foods, drinks, cosmetics and industrial oils (fuel, lubricants, paints).

Health Benefits

Contains all 20 essential amino acids and has a near perfect ratio of omega-6 to omega-3, making the foods great for digestion and inflammation.

Stalk Usage

Beneficial for load-bearing composites, textiles and building materials.

Designation

Called Cannabis sativa because of low THC-content.

Grown For

Fibers, grain and/or flowers.

Potency

Contains less than 0.3% THC,

by U.S. law. (Contains less than 0.2% THC in Europe.)

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The Many Uses

of

HE MP

Hemp is the strongest natural fiber in the world, known to Hemp is the strongest natural have over 50,000 fibre in the world, known uses. to have over 50,000 different uses!

TEXTILES - Clothing - Diapers - Handbags - Denim - Shoes - Fine fabrics INDUSTRIAL TEXTILES - Rope - Canvas - Tarps - Carpeting - Netting - Caulking - Moulded parts

PAPER - Printing - Newsprint - Cardboard - Packaging

BUILDING MATERIALS - Fibreboard - Insulation - Acrylics - Fibreglass substitute

- Organic compost and nutrients - Remedy for conditions such as arthritis or joint pain, fibromyalgia, and eczema.

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INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS - Oil paints - Varnishes - Printing inks - Fuel - Solvents - Coatings FOODS - Hemp Seed Hearts - Hemp Seed Oil - Hemp Protein Powder - EFA Food Supplements BODY CARE - Soaps - Shampoos - Lotions - Balms - Cosmetics

- Very absorbant and good for animal bedding - Mulch and compost

THE BENEFITS OF CULTIVATING HEMP

Hemp can yield 3- 8 dry tons of fibre per acre. That’s four times what an average forest

Co-owner of Hemporium, Tony Budden is a leading figure in the pro-hemp movement.

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South Africa

The

BUILDING of a Hemp

INDUSTRY When pondering the African continent, most Americans are probably more apt to envision landscapes of Saharan deserts and dense jungles rather than arable fields of hemp.

But that perception is changing as countries like South Africa push for sensible legislation of the plant.

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THE GREAT GLOBAL HEMP RACE IS OFFICIALLY ON. China is currently the world’s largest producer of industrial hemp and has its sights set on using the plant to lift millions out of poverty. European nations like Britain, Spain and France are ramping up as well, currently leading the world in hemp construction materials. And Australia and Germany, with a focus on sustainability, are foremost in the creation of biocomposites and biodegradable plastics.

And now South Africa is in the hemp limelight.

Historically, countries in Africa from Kenya to the Ivory Coast have followed the U.S.’s lead with the decades-long War on Drugs and remained tough on all forms of cannabis, both psychoactive and non-psychoactive. Government authorities across Africa have also clung to similarly outdated U.S. prohibition laws that group cannabis (marijuana and industrial hemp alike) with highly addictive drugs such as heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine.

But now, agricultural visionaries in South Africa, who have known that much of their land and climate is well suited to grow the hemp plant, are pushing for legalization and making real headway.

Tony Budden and Duncan Parker, co-owners of Hemporium, are leading figures in the pro-hemp movement.

Importers of raw hemp materials, they work with local South African small businesses to create hemp products ranging from construction supplies to nutritional supplements. They also happen to be the first licensed growers of hemp in the country.

“Hemp stalks can reach two to four meters tall in just three to four months,” say the founders, “and those stalks can be used for literally thousands of different applications.

The fact that hemp grows so tall so quickly is what makes it such a sustainable resource. The demand for raw materials can easily be met by the fast, abundant supply of hemp.”

Similar to U.S. restrictions on industrial hemp, production of the plant in South Africa is kept under tightly controlled research conditions by the government. And not unlike the situation in the U.S., hemp farming is viewed by visionaries as a crop that could potentially aid the country’s financial and environmental woes. In a nation where a significant amount of farm land has been depleted by decades

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Right: Tending to one of many South African crops.

Below: Budden showing how easy it can be to mix hempcrete.

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of monoculture, overuse of fertilizers, soil erosion and loss of topsoil, experts say hemp offers the kind of promise that could uplift and advance the farming sector without the need for aggressive commercial farming practices.

Hemp expert Budden, who owns a hemp-built house in Cape Town, truly lives and breathes industrial hemp: “[My hemp house] is warm in winter and cool in summer and my electricity costs are a fraction of similarly sized conventional buildings,” he told South African media outlet Independent Online. “When I tell people that most of my walls were grown in four months they are generally amazed.”

The house is a showcase for all things hemp, featuring hempcrete walls, hemp insulation, hemp curtains, carpets and couches.

What some see as “alternative living” Budden sees as a completely sensible way of life, he says, “This morning I woke up under a hemp duvet, stepped onto my hemp carpet, opened my hemp curtains, in my house made of hemp, showered with hemp soap and shampoo, opened my cupboards made from hemp chipboard, got dressed in hemp clothes, made myself a smoothie with hemp seeds, and a salad for lunch using

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“THE FACT THAT HEMP GROWS SO TALL SO QUICKLY IS WHAT MAKES IT SUCH A SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE. THE DEMAND FOR RAW MATERIALS CAN EASILY BE MET BY THE FAST, ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF HEMP.”

Left: Budden in front of his Hemp House. Above: The interior of the home is full of breathable, ecofriendly hemp.

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hemp seed oil salad dressing, drove to work at my hemp business where we employ people to make hemp products and support a farmer who is doing our research.”

That research by Hemporium may be the catalyst that finally frees the hemp plant in his country. In March of this year, the South African court ruled that current cannabis legislation did not pass constitutional court muster, and that parliament had two years to rectify the laws. So it’s just a matter of time before hemp becomes available as an option for South African farmers and to the public at large.

“Imagine if [hemp] was available to everyone, where one plant that is grown organically with ease in four months could provide for so many of our needs,” says Budden. “I think that South Africa would be a better, greener, more sustainable place.”

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Above: Budden harvesting another crop.

Left: Insulating the walls with hempcrete.

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THE GLASSES ARE ALSO VEGAN AND RECYCLABLE, AND EVEN THE PACKAGING IS SUSTAINABLE. AND HEMP EYEWEAR ISN’T JUST A GLASSES COMPANY — THEY ALSO SELLS PHONE CASES AND RUCKSACKS.

It’s sustainable, it’s eco-friendly, and it can grow almost anywhere — and without pesticides.

So it comes as no surprise that there all sorts of products are made with hemp, from clothing and jewelry to paper and building materials.

But in 2014, Sam Whitten, a product design student in Glasgow, noticed a big gap in the hemp market: sunglasses. So he decided to start his own company, Hemp Eyewear, the world’s first cannabis sunglasses.

The first Hemp Eyewear prototypes were made by hand at Whitten’s school. After graduating, he turned his garage into a makeshift workshop and used his friends to test out his products. Through a successful Kickstarter campaign, Whitten and his business partner Bradley Smith raised over $46,000 dollars to create their sustainable, eco-friendly glasses company, turning their idea into reality, and achieving their goal of promoting hemp as a renewable resource through innovative design.

Today, Hemp Eyewear utilizes leading edge sustainable technology and traditional artisanal techniques to manufacture their glasses — and they do a great job making this 100-step, 100 percent ethical process look extremely easy. Each frame is a handcrafted composite of hemp and flax fibers built at their studio in an old biscuit factory in Edinburgh, Scotland. Because they’re made from hemp, the glasses are both strong and lightweight; while the average pair of Wayfarer sunglasses weighs more than 1.5 ounces, Hemp Eyewear pair weighs less than half that.

Whether you have a prescription or just need a new pair of sunglasses with 100 percent UV protection, Hemp Eyewear’s Carl Zeiss lenses have an unbeatable reputation and are made from more than 70 percent biological materials. They’re thin, lightweight, and scratch-resistant and can be made to fit any prescription, including single vision, progressive/bi-focal, and transitional lenses.

Both men and women can choose from five different stylish Hemp Eyewear frames, from the classic Crosby to the ultra-mod Hamburg to the on-trend Lotus. The retro Dean style is based on the most successful frame shape of all time, while Concord is inspired by the classic Aviators.

And because of their special production technique, every pair is completely unique; no two fiber patterns is the same.

The glasses are also vegan and recyclable, and even the packaging is sustainable. And Hemp Eyewear isn’t just a glasses company — they also sells phone cases and rucksacks.

Since launching in 2014, Hemp Eyewear has attracted attention from Gizmodo, Trendhunter, and Design Milk.

They recently completed a second successful Kickstarter campaign, raising more than $16,000 to produce their sunglasses completely in-house. Five percent of the profits from the campaign will go to support the Ocean Cleanup project, which is developing advanced technologies to rid world's oceans of plastic.

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COLORA D O’ S HOT H EMP D E ST I N AT I O N Nature’s Root provides a heavenly spa outing with hemp grown in the USA.

By Ricardo Baca

After stuffing our already-full backpacks for the final time, we double-checked our room and tiny bathroom for straggling clothes and souvenirs. We were in Malaga, Spain, at the tail end of a month-long vacation, and it was time to head home to Denver.

Before leaving the hostel and its free Wi-Fi I asked my wife Melana, “Any idea how many hours we’ll be traveling today?” She didn’t, but she started counting the day ahead of us out loud. “From Malaga to Dublin is three hours,” she said, “then a three-hour layover. Dublin to New York is seven and a half, and then another three-hour layover.

And New York to Denver is … looks like it’ll be 21 hours.”

“Or 24 hours if you include the bus we’re about to catch to the airport and the waiting,” I added.

My wife then responded with a seriousness typically reserved for much weightier conversations: “We’re going to need a massage when we get home.”

A few days later when we walked into Nature’s Root Spa – the world’s first hemp-based spa, located in almost-rural Colorado – it was

immediately clear that we were about to be on the receiving end of some legit, CBD-infused pampering. And our bodies, still feeling the pain of that brutal 24-hour travel day, were thrilled about it.

Over the past few years, hemp’s use in health and wellness products has been gaining popularity nationwide, with the trend seeing the creation of products ranging from restorative creams to soaps to healing salves. And the market is only growing, as more and more consumers discover the healing properties of the plant.

Hemp aficionados in Colorado and elsewhere are already familiar with Nature’s Root, as their hemp-based, non-psychoactive lotions, scrubs and salves have quickly made a name for themselves. It helps that Nature’s Root is a full-service seed-to-sale business, as they grow hemp on their farms, process it, extract what they need and create each of their products from the fruits of their harvest.

But Nature’s Root co-owners Dani Billings and her mother Tracee Box envisioned another step in the seed-to-sale model – thus their new spa located in an unassuming industrial park in the heart of trendy

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massage oil and lotion was rejuvenating and the atmosphere was on point, she told me on our drive back to Denver.

“One of the products she used – a hydrating mask made of honey and goji berries – she put it on my lips, and when she took it off 20 minutes later my lips felt completely different,” Melana said. “The products worked well for catering to the climate. It’s dry and it’s been hot, and the facial was hydrating and felt nourishing.”

OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, HEMP’S USE IN HEALTH AND WELLNESS PRODUCTS HAS BEEN GAINING POPULARITY NATIONWIDE. The questions that often follow these kinds of experiences are often of the “was it different from a normal massage?” variety.

Nature’s Root says that the depth of penetration in muscle is greater and the relief time from pains and aches is extended when CBDinfused products are used for massages. But given the mix of ingredients and oils that are added to the hemp and CBD, it’s impossible to tell what’s what – especially when the therapists themselves are also bringing a lot to the experience.

What I can report back is this: The masterful execution of a 360degree hemp and CBD spa makes for a tremendous outing. From the moment you enter the expansive and calming lobby at Nature’s Root to your exit – where you’re given the remaining CBD massage oil to take home, a lovely surprise bonus to the upgrade – you feel pampered, both physically and philosophically.

As consumers, we make decisions every day regarding where we spend our money. And now those who rely on body work can make the decision to support a business that believes in hemp – and in an ever-normalizing 2016, that’s a big deal.

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Longmont, an hour outside of central Denver.

“We are considered a seed-to-customer company,” said Box, noting that what they grow is eventually applied to their clients’ skin by Nature’s Root staff. “We manufacture in-house from our farms across Colorado. Our CBD concentrate comes to Longmont, and from there we create our body care line, which is 100 percent hemp-based.

And our therapeutics line is hemp-based with the added benefit of CBD oil.”

The spa’s services include massages and facials of different types and lengths, as well as waxes and eyelash extensions. As I opted for an hour-long restorative massage ($75) with an emphasis on my embattled back, my wife went the rejuvenating route – an hour-long facial ($70). When we were asked if we wanted to upgrade to the CBD product line for an additional $18 each, we nodded yes – it’s why we were here!

Our therapists met us in the waiting area, a fresh and calming space decked out with rugs, clothes and products made of hemp. As we passed the reception counter, made of multi-colored hempcrete and decorated with thousands of hemp seeds under the clean glass tabletop, they asked if we wanted any more organic hemp tea before our treatments.

Of course we did.

Masseuse Becca Mecklenburg’s therapeutic massage style was meditative and deliberate, subtle but strong. She quietly told me when she was using the CBD oil and when she was using the CBD Sore Muscle Hemp Salve – “our top seller,” Box told me a few days later.

The CBD massage oil had a luxurious consistency – not too oily.

The sore muscle salve, which was thoughtfully applied and left on my upper back so it could tingle throughout the rest of the massage, provided a fantastic sensation with its arnica-like icy hotness.

Melana’s facial was equally relaxing and nuanced. The pace was smooth and relaxing, the arm-and-feet massages with a mix of CBD

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MAKING HEMP-D ERI V ED C B D O I L Hemp processors around the globe are leaping into CBD oil production with a variety of methods ranging from CO2 pressure systems to chilled ethanol extraction. Each process starts with the same hemp material called feedstock, or raw hemp flowers in the form of whole flowers, trim or ground material. The following is a description of the chilled ethanol extraction method for CBD oil production.

Feedstock in the form of whole flowers, trim or ground plant material is prepared.

The material is combined with 190 proof, food-grade alcohol into a reactor designed to control temperatures to approximately 15 degrees Celsius.

A dunking or mixing system dissolves the plant material in the alcohol while the reactor mechanism cools the mixing material.

After 20 to 60 minutes, the feedstock is thoroughly mixed and cooled.

A vacuum pump and evaporation process then condenses the alcohol while it separates out the extract (essentially filtering out impurities much like a stainless-steel, reverseosmosis water system).

The process removes fatty acids and lipids from hemp plant matter to produce cannabinoid-rich hemp oil extract.

What is left is an extract material ready for consumption.

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HEM P PROTEIN SMOOT HI E Orange is the New Green.

By Laurie and Maryjane

derived largely from hemp, is easy to digest and loaded with fiber and important omega fatty acids. Hemp has negligible amounts of THC, the cannabinoid that results in the feeling of being high, so there is no psychotropic effect at all. Packed with crazy nutrition, this smoothie is a satisfying meal replacement that includes plenty of good protein to keep you sated and on the go for hours.

I happened to have cooked carrots in the fridge when I first tested this recipe. The carrot and mango were a great duo.

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Serving: 1 INGREDIENTS 1 ¼ cups unsweetened coconut milk 1 scoop plant-based French vanilla nutritional protein powder ½ cup cooked carrots ½ cup ripe mango, peeled and cut in chunks (frozen is fine) 1 teaspoon vanilla ½ teaspoon cinnamon 6 ice cubes 1 lime cut in half ½ cup toasted unsweetened shredded coconut

Visit laurieandmaryjane.com for more great cannabis recipes. [ for reference, this is the protein powder Laurie used: Vega One All-In-One Nutritional Shake, French Vanilla]

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DIRECTIONS 1. Place the coconut on a baking sheet. Bake in an oven at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes, stirring a couple of times.

2. Squeeze one lime half onto one small plate. Place the toasted coconut on another small plate. Dip the rim of a tall glass in the lime juice, then dip into the toasted coconut.

3. Place the milk, protein powder, carrots, mango, vanilla and cinnamon in the blender. Pulse on low to and then blend on high for about 60 seconds or until the mixture is smooth. Pour carefully into the prepared glass.

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