Source: MOUNTAIN XPRESS, 9/6/18


North Carolina’s first industrial hemp research pilot program launched in spring of 2017, and since then, the number of licensed growers throughout North Carolina has doubled with representation in nearly every county. So what’s happening with all that hemp? “I’ve heard 15,000 uses for industrial hemp,” jokes Leonora Stefanile, a research assistant working with the Hemp Pilot Program through N.C. State University’s Department of Horticultural Science.

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