HempLogic Radio

Maureen West is the General Counsel and Compliance Officer for Boulder, Colorado-based Functional Remedies (https://functionalremedies.com), makers of full-spectrum hemp-based, seed-to-bottle products that use 100% sustainable farming. Previously, Maureen served as the first Industrial Hemp Program Manager in the United States at the Colorado Department of Agriculture. Having worked in government regulations for 16+ years, Maureen understands the challenges of being on the inside of regulatory agencies like the USDA and FDA. She can speak to this as well as the other side, based on her current experience with a hemp brand.

 

Prior to entering the industrial hemp industry, Maureen provided legal counsel as an assistant attorney general for the Colorado Office of the Attorney General where she represented over a dozen regulatory boards including the Dental Board, Nursing Board, Physical Therapy Board, Acupuncture and Direct-Entry Midwife Programs.  Maureen is an adjunct professor at the University of Denver where she teaches Health Care Public Policy and the Legislative Process and Legal Issues in Global Health Care Management. She is also a registered dental hygienist and received her juris doctorate from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and holds a bachelor degree in dental hygiene from the University of Colorado Dental School.

 

In this episode, Maureen will discuss the enforcement of the USDA rules. This will provide food for thought for both the regulators (USDA/DEA) and the farmers (registrants) prior to any of the rules being finalized.

Today we are talking to Shay Myers first year hemp farmer and we will discuss the ins and outs of growing hemp for the first time.

Vini Villatoro CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER - GLOBAL HEMP SOLUTIONS

I am the COO, Partner and Founder for Global Hemp Solutions, my expertise is in post processing, having designed several extraction systems for companies here in the US, Europe and Asia that goes from CO2 or Ethanol extraction, including molecular distillation or fractional and includes the most advance techniques in Chromatography, like HPLC, SMB, SFC to mention a few. Actually, I serve on the Board of several companies with Cannabis and Hemp interest in several countries in different continents, in some of them I'm the Lead Engineer and designer for the Operations and a shareholder as well. Some of the big Operations that we have helped establish, asked us to join them to make sure they will be always on top, technologically speaking. The systems that we have designed includes processing millions of pounds per month of Hemp or the ability to refine into different Isolate Cannabinoids using LPLC with resins and HPLC up to 150,000 liters per month. Our company represents the only one in the world that offer SFC/SMB Chromatography setups to remediate THC from distillate oils down to 0.005ppm to make it non-detectable. One of the most important gifts bestowed upon me, it’s the ability to analyze and discover what needs to be done in order to make things happen. I am an Engineer, studied an MBA and a Master in Operations research. I did that mainly because I thought those tools will help me develop a model to my madness.

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When you can't figure out how avoid the enforcers, best practices is to ask one! 

So then who better to help shine a light on the murky and potentially disaster-strewn world of CBD hemp compliance than a former cannabis compliance officer? A gal affectionately known as the ‘weed-whacker’ because of the 28 million pounds of non-compliant marijuana she disposed of in a single year alone? 

Kimberly Stuck, the former Denver Marijuana/Hemp Specialist and founder of Allay Cannabis Consulting, a consulting firm helping the hemp and CBD industry navigate FDA compliance pitfalls, jumps into sticky subject of complying with FDA hemp and CBD regulations. Stuck joins HempLogic founder Cory Sharp and Exec. VP of Sales John Tucci for a legal quagmire discussion of ‘how to not have the feds shut you down.’

While the 2018 Farm Bill made hemp and hemp-derived cannabinoids and other extractions legal, it didn’t reallly tell manufacturers how they could ‘legally’ sell it. And so far, the FDA is saying ‘don’t sell it as medicine and don’t add it to foods!’ So... what’s a good (and legal) CBD producer to do?

Stuck, who grew to love the cannabis industry in her 'compliance role' so much that she 'switched sides,' works today to help new hemp companies and CBD manufacturers make sure they remain on the right side of the law. 

At HempLogic we Believe in the Hemp Farmer. What's Your Hemp Dream

HempLogic - America's Largest Vertically Integrated Hemp Company. 

Offering consulting, seeds, biomass buying, harvest services and more. Hemp farmers serving the hemp industry.

Jon Stoddard

20 plus years in the tech industry

Co-founder of tech company called TurboSquid

Bought hearing aid ecommerce company, grew it to #2 seller online, profitable every year and sold to private investor

Recently Worked on pre IPO raise for IONIC Brands Corp. and Involved $7.8 million Acquisition of Astley's of London by IONIC Brands

Raised over $22 Million   

 

What I do now:   

"I provide a service for Entrepreneurs who need to raise capital to fuel their business, but cannot find the right investors, the right message or help to get it done...." 

 

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Once the CBD bubble has burst, is hemp fiber and textile the long game for the American hemp industry? 

HempLogic founder Cory Sharp thinks fiber is where it’s at, and so does today's guest Skylar Lysaker, CEO of Greenz Supply.

A hemp apparel brand focused on sustainable products, Greenz Supply is laser-focused on hemp as the premiere earth-friendly and authentic material to help solve the fashion industry’s pollution problem. Currently, the fashion industry is considered the #2 polluter of the earth beyond oil.  

But what they need to get there, Skylar explains, is an abundant supply of American-grown hemp fiber And the processing and production facilities to transform that hemp into wearable fabric. That challenge is vast, and one that many farmers and those new to the industry don’t understand, especially while everyone is distracted by hemp CBD. 

But the potential is there for those willing to look long-term. Sharp predicts a market ‘10x that’ of CBD hemp. But what will it take to get farmers, production and the entire industry – especially investors willing to support long-term gains, versus short-term profits – behind the fiber hemp industry?

Join the HempLogic podcast for some deep thinking about what the future of industrial hemp holds and the challenges of getting from the CBD gold rush to a hemp fiber revolution. 

At HempLogic we Believe in the Hemp Farmer. What's Your Hemp Dream?

HempLogic - America's Largest Vertically Integrated Hemp Company. 

Offering consulting, seeds, biomass buying, harvest services and more. Hemp farmers serving the hemp industry.

So You Think You Want to Grow Smokable Hemp Flower? How's Your Handling and Drying Game?

Daniel “Donny” Jurmann, a long-time cannabis and hemp expert, talks the smokable hemp market and what it will take for farmers to succeed in this potentially lucrative market.

It’s all comes down to expert harvest and proper handling, Jurmann explains to HempLogic founder Cory Sharp. Hear how, with hemp legalization, the market is moving away from ‘budmass’ and anything that even slightly resembles a flower, to a quality, premium product.

A run-down on the challenges and expertise needed to properly harvest, dry and cure smokable hemp flower to meet higher buyer standards. Jurmann, VP of sales and marketing for Marshall Farming, describes the art and technique of drying and curing the cannabis flower as “my great passion in life.”

In the end, is smokable hemp flower a lucrative ‘pivot’ for hemp farmers looking to shift away from biomass sales? Like most things in industrial hemp…it depends!

Reach out to Jurmann for more about growing smokable hemp flower on LinkedIn or Instagram. 

LinkedIn:  Daniel Jurmann

Instagram: momaad_pdx

At HempLogic we Believe in the Hemp Farmer. What's Your Hemp Dream?

HempLogic - America's Largest Vertically Integrated Hemp Company. 

Offering consulting, seeds, biomass buying, harvest services and more. Hemp farmers serving the hemp industry.

Getting Hemp Out of the Field Using Custom Harvesting –  Not a Perfect Way But At Least A Way!

Benjamin Oard of Hemp Harvesters of America comes on HempLogic radio to talk hemp harvest and what his company can offer to hemp farmers desperate to get their 2019 hemp crop out of the field.

HHOA is a custom harvester operating out of Kansas. They have equipment to first lay down your hemp crop in the field, and then follow-up with a combine that chops and separates biomass from stalk. They travel all across the United States.

Oard, with HempLogic founder Cory Sharp and Director of Farm Relations Richard Burton, explains while his way may not be the best way, “it is A way” for hemp farmers to get out of the field and meets a goal of ‘lets get out of the field and move onto 2020.” Oard’s services are one more option that HempLogic and their Harvest Rescue Solution is recommending for the 2019 hemp harvest, depending on each farmer's situation, 

In early September, HempLogic put together a “Hemp Harvest Rescue” and is working to help as many hemp farmers as possible to get their product of the field and biomass sold. Check out HempLogic’s Harvest Rescue Plan and contact HempLogic ASAP if you are looking for harvest solutitions

At HempLogic we Believe in the Hemp Farmer. What's Your Hemp Dream

HempLogic - America's Largest Vertically Integrated Hemp Company. 

Offering consulting, seeds, biomass buying, harvest services and more. Hemp farmers serving the hemp industry.

What could possibly be more exciting than growing industrial hemp? How about an auction to sell 1 million pounds of hemp biomass! 

Mark Case, CEO of the International Hemp Auction and Market, plugs the first ever international “Hemp Auction.” Billed as ‘The Hemp Event of the Year’ the event is being held in Franklin, TN from Nov. 19-21st. 

HempLogic founder Cory Sharp and Exec VP of Sales John “the Tooch” Tucci, discuss with Case how his auction can act as a life raft for hemp farmers with no buyer for their product. Modeled after the traditional “tobacco auction,” Case got the idea to hold the auction in response to the unprecedented amount of hemp farmers with no buyers for their biomass. The auction will list biomass, smokable flower, CBD, isolate, crude, CBG and even mother plants and clones. 

With a goal of selling one million pounds of biomass and 175,000 sq. foot coliseum ot hold it in, Case believes the auction will give hemp farmers the opportunity ‘sell their product to the highest bidder” and remove expensive middle-man brokerage fees. The auction, which will be open only to industry buyers and sellers, will be held in conjunction with a retail holiday marketplace event featuring CBD products and open to consumers.

All buyers and sellers for the hemp auction will be vetted, pre-registration opens on Sept. 16th

At HempLogic we Believe in the Hemp Farmer. What's Your Hemp Dream?

HempLogic - America's Largest Vertically Integrated Hemp Company. 

Offering consulting, seeds, biomass buying, harvest services and more. Hemp farmers serving the hemp industry.