US HEMP FOOD SECTOR GROWING ONE BITE AT A TIME
July 1st, 2016
Mirroring the increasing trend toward legalisation of marijuana for recreational and/or medicinal purposes in the USA and Canada, North American consumers are incorporating the cannabis plant and its byproducts into their diets.
Some 25 American states and the federal District of Columbia had, by this month (July) liberalised their marijuana laws following decades of prohibition. The result has been proliferation of businesses selling the weed, particularly in early adoption states like Colorado and Washington.
And not all of these sales are coming in the form ...
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