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Pleasant Lands: Policy Oversight Forcing British Farmers to “Burn” Hundreds of Millions Worth of CBD
A new report coordinated by third sector drug policy reform organisation Volteface has today been released, promising a solution to ‘draconian, pointless’ hemp legislation. The report has been written with leading licensing barrister of Francis Taylor Gary Grant, leading cannabis solicitor, Rob Jappie of Ince, and Lily Temperton of cannabis consultancy Hanway Associates.
The paper, which has been backed by Conservative MP Crispin Blunt, outlines the economic and environmental benefits of embracing hemp, by promising to boost the ‘the government’s promised green recovery and kick start the economic bounce back by boosters coffers’ to the Treasuries much depleted finances. The British CBD market, the concentrated oil which is extracted from hemp flower, is currently worth £300million with estimates valuing the market at around £1billion by 2025.
The new mill at Factory Lane has opened with accreditation from the Soil Association and ISO9001. At the mill three employees, which founder Steven Glover hopes to double by the summer, press and process hemp seeds grown on 12 farmers across the country. The oil is pressed from the seeds and the byproducts are used to create protein powder and hemp flour and sold on. Mr Glover told the Wiltshire Times: We re extremely proud to have opened the mill in Warminster, proud to be part of the community and to create jobs. And very proud to produce nutrient dense food products for people to enjoy.