Much can be accomplished with money, celebrity, and land, three things Kanye West \u2014 the mercurial musical genius and, since last fall, the owner of two sprawling Wyoming ranches \u2014enjoys in abundance.<\/p>\n
But not everything. Not even Kanye West has permission to grow hemp \u2014\u00a0yet<\/a>.<\/p>\n In addition to mulling a run for president and a name change or two, while redefining gospel music on the side, becoming a sustainable clothing magnate with his very own hemp farm is one of many grandiose Ye schemes announced recently that haven\u2019t quite taken off.<\/p>\n happy new decade from the ranch pic.twitter.com\/7XhVVBEG4I<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 ye (@kanyewest) January 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This is not his fault. Though the\u00a0Farm Bill<\/a>\u00a0signed by West\u2019s good friend President Donald Trump in December 2018 has led to an explosion of hemp production and CBD product availability throughout the country,\u00a0Wyoming farmers are still waiting for federal permission<\/a>\u00a0to put their first low-THC cannabis sativa seeds in the ground.<\/p>\n Wyoming is increasingly becoming an outlier in the west as a state that allows neither recreational nor medical cannabis \u2014 and is also slow to adapt hemp production. Wyoming state agricultural officials resubmitted a proposal for a hemp-growing pilot program to federal Agriculture\u00a0Department officials on Friday.<\/a><\/p>\n That means any Kanye West CBD lines will have to wait. But the potential\u2019s there. And at least that was the plan as recently in October, not long after West bought the first of two Western ranches he and his wife, Kim Kardashian West,\u00a0now own.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re building farms here, because of the climate and because of the soil, that have hydroponic cotton, wheat, hemp,\u201d\u00a0West told Apple News<\/a>, which he invited out to the $14 million property near Cody, Wyoming called \u201cMonster Lake Ranch.\u201d<\/p>\n When West bought it, the ranch had \u201ca restaurant, a saloon, a ranch-style event venue, a maintenance shop, an office building\u201d as well as ranch-y things like horse barns, a corral, sheds, and a place to shoot guns.<\/p>\n All indications are that this is one of the places where West lives with his family. One of the saloons is a recording studio, and Kardashian and the couple\u2019s children live in the main house.<\/p>\n There\u2019s been a flurry of activity there, some of which has run afoul of authorities: West was ordered to stop construction on a massive \u201cmediation amphitheater,\u201d and was visited by authorities yet again in November to stop unpermitted construction.<\/p>\n This begs the questions: What\u2019s Kanye West doing out in Wyoming, and when does he plan to start growing hemp?<\/p>\n West himself has indicated that he plans to move production of his Yeezy sneakers out west, something that he hinted at during the interview and\u00a0something he said outright in a separate appearance in New York<\/a>. He also suggested employing formerly incarcerated people as the farm and factory labor.<\/p>\n Both the hemp and the cotton could provide the raw materials for production, though it\u2019s unclear both where he\u2019d source the labor, as well as whether he\u2019d be able to get a warehouse or other buildings necessary for manufacturing built.<\/p>\n But he wants to do it. \u201cWe\u2019re developing our own fabrics and we\u2019re gonna go from \u2018seed to sew,\u2019 from farm to table so we can see the entire process,\u201d he said. \u201cWe gotta sustain, right?\u201d<\/p>\n Right! But before the sustaining, the shopping. A few weeks after the interview, West\u00a0bought another ranch near Cody,<\/a>\u00a0this one for $14.459 million. Bighorn Mountain Ranch, the second of the two West ranches in Wyoming, has, among other things, heated helicopter pads and saunas on its 6,713 acres.<\/p>\n The second ranch, according to People, is a permanent home for West\u2019s recent religious effort, a \u201cpop-up church service\u201d called Sunday Services.<\/p>\n But since the holidays, which the Wests appeared to spend out on the ranch, it appears attention has wandered somewhat. Forensic analysis of Kim Kardashian West\u2019s Instagram page (we looked at it for like an hour)\u00a0suggests that most of the family has spent most of the past week or so in Los Angeles or other places not at the ranch<\/a>.<\/p>\n And if Wyoming doesn\u2019t quite get its act together, there\u2019s always Montana, where Kanye West could apparently buy as many ranches as he wants.<\/p>\n TELL US<\/strong>, do you think Kayne West will really grow hemp?<\/p>\n The post Kanye West Is Still Waiting on Donald Trump to Grow Hemp<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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