Known for his book, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road, Colorado author Finn Murphy's latest offering details his hopes, dreams and failures in Colorado's hemp trade.
No. I'm not activated about the CDA and their hemp initiative and that kind of stuff. The most diplomatic way to put it, which is also mostly accurate, is that the CDA and the state wanted to find a solution for the endemic problems small farmers face in Colorado. So they came up with hemp, and with all of the hype and outside capital, they jumped in with two feet, just like I and 2,500 other farmers in Colorado did. They should have done more due diligence, but they didn't.
It definitely did, and nobody had a cost structure back then, either. NoCo Hemp Expo is going on in a couple of weeks, and there will be all of these symposiums and speakers — but not a single breakout session on the costs of growing hemp. No one wants to talk about that because it's so expensive. Colorado was almost first at it. They were growing it in Oregon slightly before, where it's a much better climate for this stuff. There's more experience and institutional knowledge up there, too, because they're so close to Northern California's Emerald Triangle, where cannabis has been grown outdoors for decades. Colorado was one of the first states to it and had cheerleaders in the CDA and the state, too, which made a big difference.
Given your past experiences in trucking, retail clothing and other small businesses, how did working in hemp compare?
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