Reefer madness, the CBD bubble, and the future of hemp

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🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Is hemp overhyped? Or is it a planet-saving super plant?

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0:00.0	Let's go, go this way.
0:04.0	Hey Nate.
0:08.0	Hey, Felix.
0:09.0	So the other day I met up with a guy in rural Connecticut and he had this vicious pack of cute dogs.
0:16.4	Their names were Pagno, Kamadada, and Holt.
0:20.4	Great names.
0:21.4	So they have about 13 and 12?
0:23.0	Yeah.
0:24.0	Oh, well, I can't pay for that.
0:27.0	There's no insurance.
0:30.0	Hulk, I imagine, was not actually very big.
0:32.0	No, no. He was the smallest one of them all.
0:34.0	But anyways, the guy I'm here to meet,
0:38.0	his name is Echto Herardo, but he goes by Freedom.
0:41.0	Freedom.
0:42.0	Yes. And Freedom brings me to a table with a bunch of items on it, laid out kind of like a table at a
0:48.4	flea market.
0:49.4	Uh-huh.
0:50.4	Let's start with the plants.
0:51.6	You can see right here. This is the seed. Do have like a few leaves.
0:56.5	And we're looking at hemp plants. Freedom is a hemp farmer.
1:00.4	Yeah. They're on stocks that are about same height as a human.
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