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Industrial Hemp Comes to Kansas

By Kansas News Service
Published July 6, 2018 at 11:45 AM CDT
Field of hemp growing in Colorado (Photo by Dani Billings, Colorado Hemp Project)
Field of hemp growing in Colorado (Photo by Dani Billings, Colorado Hemp Project)

The Kansas Legislature legalized the growing of industrial hemp this year. People promoting the plant see nearly endless uses for it -- although getting high is not among them -- and a tempting new crop for farmers. But creating a market from scratch won’t be easy. for the Kansas News Service, Brian Grimmett reports.

 
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Brian Grimmett is a reporter for KMUW Radio in Wichita and a contributor to Kansas Public Radio and the Kansas News Service. Follow Brian Grimmett on Twitter. The Kansas News Service is a collaboration covering health, education, and politics across the state. 
 
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The Kansas News Service produces essential enterprise reporting, diving deep and connecting the dots in tracking the policies, issues and and events that affect the health of Kansans and their communities. The team is based at KCUR and collaborates with public media stations and other news outlets across Kansas. Kansas News Service stories and photos may be republished at no cost with proper attribution and a link back to kcur.org. The Kansas News Service is made possible by a group of funding organizations, led by the Kansas Health Foundation. Other founders include United Methodist Health Ministry Fund, Sunflower Foundation, REACH Healthcare Foundation and the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City.
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