Jim Higdon

Before co-founding Cornbread Hemp, Jim Higdon was a nationally recognized journalist and book author based in Louisville, Kentucky. He covered marijuana policy for POLITICO Magazine, and for the Washington Post when news broke in Kentucky. His first book, “The Cornbread Mafia,” was published in 2012 in hardcover and in revised paperback in 2019. He co-founded Cornbread Hemp in 2019 with his cousin, Eric Zipperle.