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Jolene Hansen

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Jolene Hansen is an award-winning freelance writer and editor who has covered the commercial horticulture, specialty ag and CEA industries for more than a decade. A long-time contributor to Cannabis Business Times, she’s been covering the cannabis industry since Noelle Skodzinski offered her a story for CBT’s May 2016 issue. Reach her at [email protected].

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