This Is What The End Of Hemp Prohibition Looks Like
Farmers in Colorado made history this month when they harvested a hemp crop
Farmers in Colorado made history this month when they harvested a hemp crop
| Derek Cross, a chef who specializes in cooking with hemp, helps harvest the plant in Springfield, CO. [Credit: AP Photo/Kristen Wyatt] |
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AUTHOR: Matt Ferner
Farmers in Colorado made history this month when they harvested a hemp crop -- the first in the United States since 1957 when the U.S. government banned hemp.
Led by Springfield, Colo. farmer Ryan Loflin who planted the 55-acre hemp crop back in May, Loflin and hemp advocates across the nation came to his farm in October to harvest the historic crop.
Technically, Colorado won't be granting hemp growing-cultivation licenses until 2014, but Loflin just couldn't wait.
"It's time for this to happen," he said.
It happened. And this is what the end of hemp prohibition looks like:
| Volunteers harvest hemp at a farm in Springfield, Colo. during the first known harvest of industrial hemp in the U.S. since the 1950s. [Credit: AP Photo/P. Solomon Banda] |
| America's first hemp harvest in almost 60 years. [Credit: Photo courtesy Ben Droz] |
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