Washington hemp pioneer has crop, but needs market

An entrepreneur at the forefront of establishing hemp in Washington state says that he has harvested his first crop but doesn’t know what he’ll do with it, underlining the unpredictable future for sober cannabis in the state.

Cory Sharp said he figures he can store for a couple of years an estimated 70,000 to 80,000 pounds of hemp grain.

He said he’s trying to line up financing for a plant to make hemp-seed oil, sold as a nutritional supplement.

“It’ll take millions to do it right,” he said. “It’s a lot of capital, and there are a lot of hurdles.”

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