{"id":6470,"date":"2016-08-01T10:49:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T10:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/?p=5003"},"modified":"2016-08-01T10:49:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T10:49:29","slug":"legal-pot-hemp-transforming-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/legal-pot-hemp-transforming-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Pot, Hemp Transforming Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/legal-pot-hemp-transforming-agriculture\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Imagine hundreds or thousands of Pueblo families using solar and wind energy to power growing areas in their yards or basements, where vegetables and other plants &#8211; including hemp &#8211; could be harvested year-round.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Gelhoff and Meral Sarper do it all the time, and they predict that will be a major benefit of the \u201cgreen rush\u201d of jobs and products that all are part of the legalization of marijuana and hemp.<\/p>\n<p>Gelhoff, 34, with a doctorate in management, and Sarper, 25 and a graduate teaching assistant at Colorado State University-Pueblo, want the public to look past the arguing over pot as a recreational drug to the bigger picture of creating a new agricultural technology that can provide jobs on a large scale, as well as food for individual families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPueblo could easily become a hub of new technology for food production,\u201d Sarper said. \u201cThe business models for those kinds of companies will be created here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gelhoff has organized Perpetual Harvest LLC, and she calls the new technology \u201cvertical farming\u201d &#8211; the kind of indoor farming that is being reinvented in the pot and hemp industries. But those techniques, equipment and knowledge are easily adapted to other purposes. \u201cThere are parts of the world that can\u2019t feed themselves. Sustainable agriculture needs to happen,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about techniques for reclaiming water and using renewable energy. The cannabis and hemp industries have been part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gelhoff and Sarper point to the hemp industry in particular as being especially versatile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s food, fuel and medicine all in one,\u201d Sarper said, referring to the oils and other by-products. \u201cWe have a lot of land here<\/p>\n<p>in Pueblo County. Hemp production could pull Pueblo\u2019s economy out of the doldrums.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gelhoff agreed and said with CSU-Pueblo participating in pot and hemp research, that should fuel more business interest, as well as opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis trend isn\u2019t happening just here, so Pueblo needs to position itself to become one of the major exporters of hemp in the country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Gelhoff wants to start teaching basic indoor farming to school children, exposing them to organic farming and aqua-ponics, in which fish tanks are used to fertilize plants growing in water.<\/p>\n<p>Both women understand there is an argument in the community over the impact of legalized marijuana, but they see a huge economic opportunity growing out of the pot and hemp industries, an industry far more important than just providing recreational pot to its users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are going to be thousands of uses for these plants,\u201d Gelhoff said.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/legal-pot-hemp-transforming-agriculture.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>News Moderator: Katelyn Baker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a><br \/>\nFull Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/legal-pot-hemp-transforming-agriculture\/article\/feed\/1046206\" target=\"_blank\">Legal Pot, Hemp Transforming Agriculture<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: Staff<br \/>\nContact: (405) 475-3311<br \/>\nPhoto Credit: None Found<br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NewsOK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine hundreds or thousands of Pueblo families using solar and wind energy to power growing areas in their yards or&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/2016\/08\/legal-pot-hemp-transforming-agriculture\/\" class=\"read-more\">[Read More]<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1607,9,1,3],"tags":[4175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}