From Tobacco to Hemp
Asheville Hemp Project Brings Wellness Products to North Carolina – LPC
One of the great stories about cannabis is how it regenerates lives – and economies. Places like North Carolina have dwindled economically as people stopped smoking. But the Asheville Hemp Project is taking the area from tobacco to hemp.
“Asheville Hemp Project is a farm-based hemp company cultivating the plants and making products to share the… benefits of cannabis,” said co-owner Leslie Hoffman. “On the farm, we are basically a low-tech operation, utilizing mostly hand labour and the traditional drying barns that remain from the golden age of tobacco in North Carolina.”
Hoffman opened the farm to make “smart, simple products from natural materials that enhance people’s lives”.
“I owned a small farm on the Big Island of Hawaii for over 30 years where there were many marijuana growers, and I became friends with the early activists for reintroduction of hemp for all of its beneficial purposes. I had a hemp fashion company in the 90s, and have worked in the medical marijuana industry for the last five years. Someday I would love to build a house on the farm using hempcrete.
GreenLeaf Productions Limited in St. Thomas, Ontario is doing the same thing. GreenLeaf is helping take the heart of Canada’s own Tobacco Belt from tobacco to hemp, while others are growing cannabis
It’s success stories like these that prove we are moving in the right direction.
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