Josh Schneider hosts a panel discussion that takes a detailed  look at the new hemp bill coming for a final vote that will devastate Colorado’s Hemp industry.   

Led by Hunter Buffington from Ag Policy Solutions, we discuss the serious implications of SB23-271 for the Hemp industry in Colorado.   The discussion is a clear indication that state legislators and  regulators need more education on the differences between full spectrum hemp products and popular unregulated synthetic cannabinoids like Delta  8 THC. 
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Current 🗣️Sponsors of the Bill:

Senator Dylan Roberts, Attorney & Agriculture & Natural Resources Chair😩Senator Kevin Van Winkle, Small Business Owner 👀
Representative Chris deGruy Kennedy, Speaker pro tempore 
Representative  Marc Snyder, Attorney

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Jessica Tonani is a biotechnology professional with over two decades of experience in life sciences. 

CEO of Verda Bio; a cannabis research company which she co-founded. Verda Bio is performing genomic, analytical and agricultural research on cannabis.

Jessica has been active in changing cannabis research legislation. She has worked on multiple pieces of legislation enabling the research of cannabinoids in Washington State. Verda Bio has one of the only State issued cannabis research licenses in the country and has sequenced the genomes of Cannabis Sativa plants, collaborated with leading research institutes, and tracked feedback from users to create a high-quality line of plant-based products; commercialized under the tradename Basic Jane.

Jessica has been named one of the most interesting people in cannabis by Seattle Times and a cannabis leading lady by Cannabis Now. Additionally, Jessica has been widely quoted as an expert in publications such as Nature, Science, Popular Science, Bloomberg, High Times, Genome Technologies and Entrepreneur. Jessica was a Howard Hughes fellow with an MS in immunology and a BS in microbiology.

Josh discusses VerdaBio’s latest research with Jessica - their proprietary cannabis plant library and how “developing stabilized plant varieties utilizing proprietary genomic, plant breeding and metabolic technologies is creating products sourced from her research that improves quality of life and enable the next generation of consumer cannabinoid-based products.”

This episode went over 2 hours and we decided to keep all of it for you!  We couldn’t decide where to edit, since every minute of it was such great conversation! We’re pretty sure you will be glued right to the end! 

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Definitely an episode you must hear as Josh tackles several hot issues with OG, Richard Rose, founder of the Hemp Foods Association, and author of the Richard Rose Report.  The expert voice in all things hemp foods, listen to Richard’s keen insights regarding what the hemp industry still needs and why hemp grain is poised to be the market’s first billion dollar sector.

For 27 years Richard Rose has been a hemp foods pioneer, researcher, author, educator, advocate, speaker, consultant, product developer, brander, marketer, thought leader, Mentor, and entrepreneur. 

After pivoting from a successful 14-year soyfoods marketing career, in 1994 he started a movement by being the first to market sophisticated branded perishable foods made from hempseed to the masses, not only proving the viability of a new industry but changing society’s stigmas too. That revolution in food became hemp’s first billion dollar industry, and today is 90% of Canadian hemp. Until CBD it was the leading value-driver for hemp, globally.

For over four decades he’s been a leading innovator in the natural food industry with such soyfoods as TofuRella, Cottage Tofu Salad, and LeTofu sold around the world. Receiving the first 3 hemp industry awards for food innovation, he was the first food professional in hemp foods in North America, and paved the way for those he inspired to follow. 

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“The UNCTAD Commodities Branch has recently produced a report on industrial hemp that will provide the background material for a forum on the ecological properties and economic potential of this commodity. National experiences will also be shared on the development of an industrial hemp value chain.

Industrial hemp does not have intoxicating properties. Nonetheless, it remains a controversial plant, as it is often mistakenly associated with use as an intoxicant. The report discusses the general uses of industrial hemp, and how they are reflected in international production and trade statistics. Based on current experiences and empirical expertise, the report also defines the steps that could be taken by developing countries where climate and agronomic characteristics are favourable to cultivate the crop in order to exploit its economic and social potential. The report provides some information about production worldwide and trade of industrial hemp products. Overall, about 40 countries currently produce some significant quantities of industrial hemp. However, due to a narrow set of hemp products covered by international trade statistics, recorded trade flows do not fully reflect the true size of the global industrial hemp market. Indeed, despite an estimated overall value of about $5 billion in 2020, trade in such products, as reported in international trade datasets, amounted to a mere US42 million. Thus, a clear effort is urgently needed to include a more representative set of hemp-related products in international product classifications. 

Information about prices of hemp products is also scarce. Currently available sources of information are scattered and are not easily comparable. However, some patterns emerge within the sector. Important price differences exist between raw, semi-processed hemp, hemp yarn and more sophisticated derivative products. To fully exploit the potential of industrial hemp, countries would need to take specific actions. For instance, a clarification of the legal status of hemp as distinct from intoxicant cannabis substances could be the first step taken by governments. A precise understanding of production constraints imposed by regulatory frameworks in destination markets would also be necessary to identify market potential. Regional cooperation to facilitate the establishment of production chains may also be a strategy for developing countries to consider.”
- From UNCTAD Workshop Webpage

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COMMODITIES AT A GLANCE
Special issue on industrial hemp
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Our favorite policy guru, Herrick Fox, returns as promised, to give us an update on where US hemp stands currently in a global context, including a readout from his most recent UNCTAD workshop in Geneva  for which he was a presenter. 

Listen to the full audio of the United Nations Conference on Trade & Development’s Industrial Hemp Workshop.

Herrick (Rick)  also shares some thoughts about current issues in US-Europe hemp trade and potential developments in Ukraine. 

Herrick is CEO and Founder of Meristem Farms, President of the Meristem Institute and worked with the USDA   For over 15 years and now serves as Co-Chair, on the Government Affairs Committee for the National Industrial Hemp Council of America (Washington, DC); and is Co-Chair, for Committee on Policy and Regulations, for the Federation of International Hemp Organizations (Brussels)

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Sarah Stephens, CEO, of Midwest Hemp Technology, (MHT), joins us with Sales Manager, Jenifer Holmes, for a full report on the steadily growing hemp industry in Kansas. 

MHT is a hemp processing company manufacturing hemp fiber and grain crops serving Kansas and midwestern USA farmers. 

The facility is located in Augusta on four acres and is currently focused on hemp (grain) seed food, the company is currently able to sell hemp oil for cooking, hemp seed protein powder, and the hurd mix that can be used to create ‘hemp lime’, a sustainable building insulation alternative.

Although the hemp plant can be used for several different enthings such as bioplastics, textiles for clothing, food for humans and livestock, mulch for the garden, hempcrete and much more, Stephens wants the community to know that it is not being utilized for the growth of cannabinoid or CBD-related products. ‘These are outdoor crops. When you grow for CBD, usually, you’re probably inside or in a hoop house with all female only plants that will produce flowers and that’s where the cannabinoid production is,’ said Sarah Stephens, CEO of Midwest Hemp Technology. ‘These plants are male and female, directly sowed into the ground and harvested with a combine. There’s nothing to smoke on it. Someday we hope it’s grown like wheat.’

During MHT’s open house on Thursday, Nov. 3, the crew was offering hemp product samples like cookies and muffins made with hemp seeds, popcorn popped with hemp oil and a chance for the community to ask questions.

‘It’s a high-protein, high-fiber and high in omega’s seed. What we’re doing is breaking the seed into oil and protein powder. Eventually we should be able to feed it to animals, but it’s a long process for that.

If you’re a farmer that’s interested in growing a hemp crop, reach out to the team at Midwest Hemp Technology by emailing info@midwesthemptech. com.

‘If you want to grow, we will help you fill out the application, help you meet the deadline, buy the crop and you know that you’ll have a buyer,’ said Stephens. (From Times Gazette  November 7, 2022 article by Nikole Babb) 

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Joseph Hickey’s long history in the hemp industry started in 1992 with his discovery of the 1942 articles of incorporation for the long dormant Kentucky Hemp Growers Cooperative.  He renewed the charter and became its founder and Executive Director in 1994. That same year, after a meeting with Mr. Hickey, Kentucky Governor Brereton Jones established the Kentucky Hemp Task Force to research hemp’s economic opportunities for rural farmers. Mr. Hickey and actor/activist Woody Harrelson established Tierra Madre in 1995, focused on creating sustainable environmental solutions, and in 1996 orchestrated Woody’s hemp planting arrest, jury trial and eventual acquittal, an incident that brought national attention to the hemp issue. Hickey organized the world’s first International Hemp Conference in 1996, and in 1998, along with The Body Shop founder, Anita Roddick, he launched Kenex Ltd., Canada’s first hemp seed and fiber processing company. In 2014, after more than 26 years of lobbying and research efforts, Mr. Hickey became a founding member of Atalo Holdings, Inc. and this year began his new venture Halcyon Holdings to continue his vision for the re-commercialization of the US hemp industry.

In addition to being a founding member of the board of the Kentucky Hemp Industries Association and the Friends of Hemp, Mr. Hickey also recently joined as a 
Founding Board Member of FIHO - the Federation of International Hemp Organizations! 

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Kat King is a Mississippi native, born and raised in Jackson, Who recently returned to her home state to help start up cannabis businesses in the recently legalized state for medical use, with Petal Consultants.

Most recently (2020-2022), Kat was the GM of Operations and successfully launched a 340,000 sq ft. indoor cannabis facility/park in the state of California. With over sixteen years in the regulated cannabis market, she has professionally consulted on close to a million sq ft. of canopy, including two exclusive hemp flower farms. King has worked closely with dispensaries, farms, laboratories, processors and distributors in California, Colorado, Washington and Canada. She has been a Master Cultivator for more than two decades with hashish experience. In 2018, Kat founded and launched an organic cannabis skincare line out of Colorado called Cannamahila. In addition to all above, she has has worked in celebrity cannabis branding and cannabis-based media production 2013 to present. In 2017-2020 King wrote informative articles for Skunk Magazine and was voted “Top 100 Women in Weed 2020” by Green Market Report.

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