Hemp’s diverse uses and huge economic potential on display at northern Colorado expo
At a convention center in Loveland, Colorado – an agricultural area surrounded by cattle feed yards, wheat fields and the occasional oil rig – thousands of attendees turned out for the third annual NoCo Hemp Expo earlier this month.
The event was about double the size of the previous year’s, with over 130 exhibitors, 75 speakers and about a dozen workshops for those interested in the rapidly-growing industrial hemp industry.
“I love the energy here,” said David Neisingh, co-founder of Reakiro Labs, a European-based firm that specializes in hemp production, investment and development. As one of the expo’s featured speakers, Neisingh showed off a bicycle with a frame made mostly from hemp, and powered by a hemp-oil motor.
While Europe and other parts of the world have been producing, selling and perfecting hemp products for decades, federal U.S. laws still prohibit most hemp production due to the Controlled Substances Act...
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