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The Pennsylvania Hemp Steering Committee is working with government and industry so hemp can thrive in the Keystone State.

This is an encore presentation of an episode that was originally on July 10, 2019. According to Dr. Ron Kander, materials engineering professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, the way to ramp up the hemp industry is to start small. “You have to find some high-value, low-volume products that can use hemp as a biomass so that you can start developing processes that then let you put that material into consumer products and industrial products and show a value chain, and then t...

Article content Golden State Hemp was founded shortly after the 2018 Farm Bill legalized hemp in the U.S. A subsidiary of Other World Management, an agri-business with multiple divisions in the hemp industry, the company operates with a ‘zero-waste’ philosophy where every aspect of the plant is used. The shipment will go towards clinical trials and CBD products, reports Friedland told the publication that the total shipment, which represents just three to five acres of hemp, could yield a...

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