Boulder Entrepreneurs See Big Things for Hemp

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The nondescript building in east Boulder is like many other in the city; it is, in fact, identical to several surrounding structures. Passing motorists and pedestrians wouldn’t know that there’s a multi-million dollar manufacturing operation inside. And that’s the way the folks at CW Hemp want it.

Even if someone did manage to peek inside the 18,000-square-foot lab, warehouse and office space, they wouldn’t know that one of the most famous strains of hemp in the world is processed here.

Between 600 and 1,000 units of CW’s product ship from the premises each month, extracted from a strain of the plant called Charlotte’s Web, made famous by the 2013 Sanjay Gupta-hosted CNN documentary “Weed.”

Gupta, who had previously come out in opposition to marijuana legalization, reversed course after interacting with then 6-year-old Charlotte Figi, who suffered from severe seizures as a result of Dravet Syndrome.

Charlotte’s story, and the tales...

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