Upstate New York’s first legal Hemp Harvest is in the barn! But not without some worries by farmers, like Meg Southerland, who’ve taken the Hemp Cash-Crop Plunge."Well, for me, this first year, it’s been a learning curve. And I’ve loved it.”
Southerland harvested 3,000 Cherry Wine variety Hemp plants on her produce farm in eastern New York’s Washington County. The plants have little to no THC, the chemical in marijuana that makes you high, but they’re loaded with cannabinoids of which one, Canabidiol or CBD, is in strong demand as a medical substance said to ease pain. However, despite federal and state approval to grow Hemp, Southerland is wary of its future because of a lack of regulations.
“We test the plants in the field to make sure we know the CBD percentage and know the THC level.”
Southerland’s Hemp hangs drying in an old K-Mart store in Binghamton. Her buyer and advisor is a Binghamton Hemp entrepreneur, Kaelan Castetter, supervising the processing and extraction of the Hemp cannabinoids for use in CBD oils for sale at a growing number of retail shops throughout the state. “How are we going to test it? How are we going to differentiate more control, say medical use of adult use, or cannabis, and not over regulate the Hemp industry?”
Read more at news10.com