(This is an abridged version of a column that appears in the July issue of Marijuana Business Magazine.)
Reading the business-page headlines these days, hemp pioneers can be forgiven for chuckling at how large and esteemed industries have no idea how they’ll survive when faced with the kinds of challenges hemp entrepreneurs have been dealing with for decades.
Lenders ignoring phone calls? Check.
Investors asking for unreasonable returns? Check.
Governments vowing to help but then flubbing the execution? Check.
Creditors demanding payment despite unforeseeable delays—as in a federal agency vowing to regulate a product and then forgetting about it? Check. (Lookin’ at you, U.S. Food and Drug Administration.)
Hemp pioneers built the current industry despite open hostility from both creditors and government.
Now that hemp production is legal in the United States, many of those obstacles were supposed to disappear. But longtime operators don’t need to be reminded how to survive when obstacles remain. These latest challenges are just more of the same.
The good news is that every hemp entrepreneur seems to love sharing what they’ve learned—both about the plant and about business.
Many of their lessons can help entrepreneurs far beyond the cannabis industry.
To read more about why the hemp industry is well positioned for a global recession, click here.
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legal??? when is hemp legal..It IS controlled, which is a long way from being legal…I wish the industry would quit parroting the gov… the gov is not our friend, they’ll have your hemp in the dumpster on a whim…0.3% THC BS! who in their right mind would even consider smoking anything with 0.3% THC… This is a bad joke..
Why is Hemp only 1 cent. I have alot of shares and nothing is going on to get the price up. How come?
I don’t know about the decline. For example, I have several businesses that need just some preparation for these recessions. But at the same time, my business is tied to each other and this is of course both a minus and a plus. But I want to say that when these products are a popular cannabis company with a large number of different products. Then yes, I do not feel any decline in final earnings. Therefore, I believe that this is not a problem. Where it fell and grew!