by Mike Rosso The photo of a hemp plant gracing this month’s cover was taken at a farm in Cañon City in mid-June. We chose this photograph to illustrate our article about this particular strain of cannabis, also legalized by Colorado’s Amendment 64 in 2012, but containing little if any of the psychoactive components found in its recreational cousin. What hemp does have is a long history of industrial use as well as medicinal properties we are only beginning to learn about. When I first started researching this topic, I had no idea it was going to take on a ...
