INTERVIEW – Caren Kershner has been an activist in the Colorado hemp movement since 2012, when the U.S. state legalized all forms of cannabis. An advocate for the plant and …
‘Still a lot of misconceptions but young people are embracing hemp’ Read More »
INTERVIEW: Sigfried Legeay is CFO and co-founder at London-based Canxchange, the European commodities exchange for industrial hemp and cannabinoid products that provides access to the global cannabis market and helps …
Survivors of downturn are next hemp leaders, says Canxchange CFO Read More »
INTERVIEW: An economist and expert in supply chain and operations, Beau Whitney is the founder of Portland, Oregon-based cannabis consultancy Whitney Economics. He serves as chief economist at the National …
U.S economist sees ‘huge potential for fiber in the global economy’ Read More »
INTERVIEW: An avid student and practitioner of innovative approaches to soil and water quality management, Joel Bedard has been involved in agriculture, natural resources, engineering and entrepreneurship for more than …
‘The real opportunity in hemp is not in cultivation, it is in innovation’ Read More »
INTERVIEW – Jennifer Adams is Chief Business Development Officer at the U.S.-based hemp consultancy Canna Markets Group, which offers expertise in infrastructure, supply chain management, production, and product development, and …
‘We consider the CBD boom to have been both a blessing and a curse’ Read More »
INTERVIEW by Zdeněk Strnad. Robert Veverka is a Czech cannabis activist and journalist, and the publisher of Legalizace magazine, which has been published since 2010. He sits on the Prague …
How a Czech publisher’s cannabis magazine made him a criminal Read More »
INTERVIEW: Jamie Campbell Petty is Executive Director at the Midwest Hemp Council, which she co-founded with partners in 2018 to lobby for Indiana hemp legislation and regulations that support farmers …
‘2022 will be the year we move forward, slowly and steadily’ Read More »
INTERVIEW: A 31-year veteran of the hemp industry, Lawrence Serbin is president of California-based Hemp Traders, which he founded in 1994. He started Cannagrove, a producer of engineered hemp “wood” …
‘Hemp surging as an environmental alternative to other fibers’ Read More »
INTERVIEW: Heather Grab is Senior Lecturer at Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Science where she teaches and mentors students in the Hemp Science Master’s Program. As a researcher in …
Working her own farm helps keep Cornell hemp researcher grounded Read More »
INTERVIEW: Eric Steenstra is president of Vote Hemp, a political advocacy organization he co-founded in 2000 which led the effort to pass hemp farming legislation at the federal and state …
‘Study the market carefully and don’t follow the pack’ Read More »
