People are stealing hemp plants from a local legal growing hemp business after mistaking the plants for cannabis. US Hemp Co. launched in 2019 and the business started harvesting in Indiana’s first legal hemp crop in 80 years.
Will Weaver, one of the founders at US Hemp Co., chased down two suspects in Elkhart County on October 17 after watching the suspects remove the hemp plants from one of the business’s fields.
There is no value in stealing the hemp plants and it only hurts business, according to Weaver.
“It just makes you feel violated,” said Weaver.
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