PROFILE
FROM Melanie Asmar
Colorado has the First Hemp Harvest since the 1950s Supermarkets and health food stores all over the country sell hemp milk, hemp tortilla chips and chocolate covered hemp seeds. The hemp they’re made from is imported—from Canada and from China. Now, Colorado farmers are harvesting the first commercial hemp crop known in the US since the 1950’s. Melanie Asmar is a staff writer at Westword , an alternative weekly in Denver.
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