“Something real—something built with care—is being dismantled by people who never had to love it to profit from it.”
By John Grady, Slaphappy Hemp Company
A recent Marijuana Moment op-ed authored by Max Jackson of Cannabis Wise Guys argues that the hemp industry killed itself and that no one—except the bad actors in the sector itself—is to blame for the result.
The bad actors the piece describes are real, and some of the failures it documents are accurate. But the conclusion—that state legislatures are fairly responding to industry abuse—lacks strength. What’s actually moving through those capitols is market consolidation dressed as consumer protection. The bad actors provided the pretext. The legislation is doing the work.
This was never a hemp problem or a marijuana problem. It was always a one plant problem—and it demands a one plant solution.
As a hemp farmer, I have stood in my field from dusk to dawn and watched my plants breathe—leaves turning down through the night, rising again to reach for the sun by morning. I have spent hours studying them, the way the light moves through the canopy at different times of day, the way a cola catches the last hour of light and
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