About this episode

The episode features a conversation with Kehrt Reyher about the future of hemp, including policy, regulation, and industry challenges.

This week on the Hemp Show, we talk to Kehrt Reyher, CEO and publisher of HempToday, a leading source of global hemp news. An American expat from Indiana who has lived in Poland for more than 30 years, Reyher cut his teeth in journalism at U.S. newspapers like the Providence Journal and USA Today before moving overseas and launching a successful media company in Warsaw. Since founding HempToday in 2015, he has become a trusted voice covering industrial hemp policy, international markets, CBD regulation and the ongoing fight to define what "true hemp" really means. In this episode, we dig into the Lawful Hemp Protection Act introduced by Kentucky congressman Andy Barr, the future of CBD regulation in both the U.S. and Europe and why intoxicating hemp products have done lasting damage to the broader hemp industry. We discuss Poland's Institute of Natural Fibers and Medicinal Plants, the upcoming European Industrial Hemp Association conference in Poznań, Australia and New Zealand's more practical hemp policies, hemp construction materials, micro-decorticators and why hemp must find its place inside larger natural fiber and biobased building markets. As Kehrt puts it: true hemp is…

People in this episode

Host: Eric Hurlock

Guest: Kehrt Reyher

Topics covered

• hemp policy
• CBD regulation
• industrial hemp
• journalism
• agriculture
• construction

Keywords

• hemp
• CBD
• regulation
• construction materials
• natural fibers
• biobased building
• HempToday
• journalism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HempToday, Institute of Natural Fibers and Medicinal Plants, European Industrial Hemp Association

Books & works: Hemp Show

Places: Poland, Australia, New Zealand, U.S., Europe, Kentucky

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