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F<\/span>or eight years, the Hawaii Farmers Union United Convention<\/a> has been a key knowledge bank for farmers from Australia to Singapore, Kenya to Britain. Now, hemp<\/a> and cannabis are working into the model. Doug Fine<\/a> was there in the mountains farm country of Maui, Hawaii, and brings us this report about the role hemp and cannabis play in that vital playbook for humanity\u2019s future.<\/p>\n In Hawaii, you can get three harvests a year in wonderful growing conditions.<\/p>\n Doug: \u201cBasically it boils down to; Hawaii, organic, hemp. The farmers I talked to, they want Hawaii to be the hemp capital of the world. I\u2019ve seen that soil, that compacted sugar soil that we are working on to bring back to health. Hemp is an extractor of heavy metals in soil.\u201d<\/p>\n Through soil workshops and field demonstrations, all while fed on delicious, nutrient-dense food, farmers come here to teach one another. That is, they are networking in the most nerdy way \u2014 you\u2019ve never heard so many theories on building magnesium in soil.<\/p>\n Since the cannabis plant is so new to many modern farmers, the convention\u2019s hemp sessions were particularly well-attended.<\/p>\n Longtime Hawaii Senator Mike Gabbard chairs the Aloha State\u2019s agriculture committee. He said the state\u2019s farmers are more than a little ready for a lucrative, soil-building crop.<\/p>\n Even Hawaii\u2019s Governor, David Ige, showed up at the Convention \u2014 a week before the U.S. elections \u2014 to show support for hemp and food<\/a> independence in Hawaii.<\/p>\n\n The President of Hawaii\u2019s Farmer\u2019s Union, Vincent Mina, is himself a farmer of organic micro-greens. For him, gathering on a chunk of volcanic rock in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is about sharing knowledge with a concrete goal in mind: a return not just to regenerative agricultural independence, but to a regionally based overall economy. And Mina says hemp is part of a planet-wide journey of recovery that starts with the world\u2019s farmers.<\/p>\n Doug: \u201cWhen the Farmer\u2019s Union Convention ended, my belly was full of righteous local food, and my mind was filled with new soil building techniques which I\u2019ll In turn share with other farmers around the world. But my work wasn\u2019t done. I dashed off to the neighboring island of Oahu to harvest hemp as part of the state-funded University of Hawaii seed development project.\u201d<\/p>\n More than 500 attendees from four continents are here today to learn about independent agriculture and the way the hemp\/cannabis plays into the future of humanity.<\/p>\n Doug Fine is the bestselling author of Hemp Bound and Too High to Fail. Visit him at dougfine.com<\/a> and @organiccowboy on social media. Check out his presentation at the 2018 Cannabis University in Amsterdam:<\/em><\/p>\n\n And with legalization comes regulation and as such, one of the biggest differences for current and prospective\u00a0hemp<\/a>\u00a0farmers is that they will no longer be dealing with the\u00a0Department of Justice (DOJ)<\/strong>. Instead, they will be dealing with the\u00a0United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)<\/strong>\u00a0or the state government. To be classified as hemp, the crop needs to contain less than 0.3% of THC.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a challenge,\u201d said Bob Hoban when asked about this shift of the Departments shift. Robert (Bob) Hoban is one of the leading lawyers in the cannabis and hemp industry. He has worked as a cannabis policy professor at the University of Denver, where he taught cannabis policy courses in Colorado and across the globe. We got to interview Bob at the\u00a0FAAAT conference in December<\/a>\u00a0last year.<\/p>\n\n To learn more about what this means for the hemp industry and CBD in particular, make sure to check out our write up on the 2018 Farm Bill.<\/a><\/p>\n The post Hawaii, hemp capital of the world?<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Even Hawaii\u2019s Governor, David Ige, showed up at the Convention<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nIn December, industrial hemp has been legalized in the USA through the 2018 Farm Bill<\/h2>\n
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