Demand for hemp — as a medicine, a textile and a food — was bottled up by nearly a century of prohibition of the plant, due to its relationship to cannabis. Now the genie is out of the bottle, and we know hemp as a viable and valuable crop with many uses. Kristen Nichols directs coverage for the Hemp Industry Daily, and she joins us to discuss why: 

• Jack Herer's statement about hemp being 'the only thing that could save the world' was hype.
• It's taking the federal government so long to figure out how to regulate hemp-based products (and it's not all due to stigma).
• Smaller CBD companies have an advantage right now.
• Who wins the presidential election probably doesn't mean much to the hemp industry.

That and more in this episode: Listen, learn and share!

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