Hemp's Big Year: Another year, another long list of victories, defeats and dumpster fires for Colorado cannabis. Social consumption, Sweet Leaf's legal woes and concerns about Jeff Sessions continued to impact pot businesses and consumers, while political wins for Jared Polis and the national hemp industry gave proponents of the plant hope.
Hemp had a monster year in 2018. (A Westword Article) | Ben Droz: The Ten Biggest Marijuana Stories of 2018
The lesser-known sibling of marijuana finally got its time in the limelight this year, with industrial hemp legalization spreading like wildfire throughout the country. Although legal to farm in Colorado since 2012, hemp became federally legal when President Donald Trump signed the Farm Bill on December 20; hemp will be regulated as an agricultural product. Now that hemp can be farmed across the country, the industry is projected to hit $22 billion in value worldwide by 2022. And Colorado, responsible for the most acreage devoted to registered hemp farming in the U.S., looks poised to prosper.
See the full article here: https://www.westword.com/marijuana/the-ten-biggest-colorado-marijuana-stories-of-2018-11067683
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