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VIRGINIA HEMP FARMER, STATE AND MARKET CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS

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VIRGINIA HEMP FARMER, STATE AND MARKET CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS Virginia hemp agriculture and farming is experiencing a time of acceleration, complexity and frustration. This is an exciting and potentially prosperous enterprise for hundreds of family farmers and ancillary small businesses and thousands of rural Virginians. I have identified some relatively simple issues that our state leaders could focus on to positively impact rural constituents.  CHALLENGES: Farmer Issues: Need education and guidance The retail market is unstable and oversupplied, but there are many underserved populations Expensive enterprise to start, maintain and insure Processing facilities are not sufficient Low official THC levels cause crops to be destroyed State Issues: In-state processing facilities are not sufficient Dispensary system rewards out-of-state, vertically integrated corporations and sidelines Virginia farmers  Legislative issues and roadblocks, ie: Delta 8 legality, cannabis timetables and acces
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Virginia Hemp Farm Aid launched to support local cannabis farming and promote Virginia-made hemp products.

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For thousands of years before the twentieth century, the super plant hemp was cultivated by farmers in Asia, Europe and the Americas--serving as a valuable raw material for clothing, rope, sails, paper, medicines and food. Industrial hemp served as a primary crop and valuable source of commerce for settlers in the New World. In fact, King George mandated that each farm plant a tablespoon of hemp seeds and grow at least one acre to support British industry. Harvested hemp was even considered legal tender to barter and pay debts and taxes. Like nearly all Virginian producers, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson harvested cannabis and extolled the virtues and value of this bountiful green blessing. All that ended abruptly and tragically in the twentieth century in the United States, when greedy and wealthy industrialists foisted the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 upon our duly-elected lawmakers, which made it criminal to grow marijuana, categorized hemp as marijuana, and rendered sustainab
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