The market shift from marijuana to hemp caused by plummeting prices. A massive oversupply of marijuana is taking marijuana prices to non-profitable levels in Oregon, this has prompted some nervous growers to start shifting to another type of cannabis to make ends meet — one that doesn’t come with a high.
Applications for licensing to grow hemp — marijuana’s non-intoxicating cousin — have increased more than twenty times since 2015, making Oregon No. 2 behind Colorado among the 19 states with active hemp cultivation.
The rapidly evolving market comes amid skyrocketing demand for a hemp-derived extract called cannabidiol, or CBD, seen by many as a health aid.
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