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Olivia Ashton / East Fork CultivarsHemp farmers in Oregon worry about the future of their industry amid an array of challenges, including new state rules and enforcement and an uncertain regulatory environment at the federal level. -
U.S. Fish and WildlifeWhat happens if you feed cannabis to sheep? It’s a question that livestock scientists are actually wondering about at Oregon State University. They’re trying to develop a new animal feed market for industrial hemp. OPB science reporter Jes Burns recently joined JPR’s Liam Moriarty to explain what they’re up to.
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A member of the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission presented initial results of a crackdown on illegal marijuana production posing as legal hemp in Jackson and Josephine counties on Thursday. -
A new bill on its way to the Governor’s desk would increase testing and law enforcement for the explosion of cannabis farming in Southern Oregon. -
Lawmakers in Oregon are trying to regulate a lesser-known compound derived from cannabis. It’s an artificially derived product from hemp that produces a high but which is sold with few restrictions. -
Hemp-mania showed up in the region in the last couple of years. The federal legalization of industrial hemp, marijuana's non-stoner sibling, opened the… -
Half a dozen industrial fans hum inside a football field-size warehouse in White City. Lined up on the ground in neat rows are 500 white plastic bags,…
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Oregon state regulators have fined five hemp businesses a total of $825,000 dollars for housing farmworkers in a dilapidated building in Josephine… -
Overflow crowds filled the Josephine County Fairgrounds auditorium in Grants Pass Wednesday night for a symposium on the region’s booming hemp industry.… -
The hemp industry was bound to grow and grow quickly, given the decades of pent-up demand from federal controls. Now hemp, marijuana's non-stoner sibling,…
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Oregon State University plans to be the go-to school for knowledge about hemp. Marijuana's non-stoner sibling has many uses, and the blessing of Congress… -
The signs are cropping up all over: Industrial Hemp: No THC!The drop in price for THC cannabis has led many farmers to switch to industrial hemp to feed… -
There's evidence that people first used hemp fibers in the early days of human civilization. The modern-day outlawing of hemp is not of its own doing:…
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Edgar Winters probably deals with a little confusion over his name. But for an extra S, it's the same as the name of a legendary rock musician…
