Restrictive Massachusetts Guidelines on Selling CBD Products Worry Hemp Farmers

Farmers are pushing back against new regulations.

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masslive.com
June 20, 2019

BOSTON — Jonathan MacDougall of Baygrown Farms in Rochester refurbishes cranberry bogs to grow hemp, an attempt to rejuvenate a struggling industry.

His company recently worked with a local produce farm to create a new line of CBD-infused strawberry jam. But after the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources last week released a policy statement banning the sale of CBD-infused food, MacDougall expects to lose the thousands of dollars he put into developing the jam.

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