In 1938 hemp was projected as America’s next billion dollar cash crop, before regulation prevented production. Now that regulation is loosening, learn how Friends of HEMP is bringing hemp back as America’s new cash crop!
We are Friends of HEMP
Friends of HEMP is a 501(c)(3) created to raise and distribute charitable funding in pursuant of advancing the industrial hemp industry.
With your help we can educate, develop and reinvigorate production for a nascent American farming economy. We thank you for your generous support!
Vision
A fully-developed United States-based industrial hemp industry supported by scientific research and market development.
Mission
To advance the industrial hemp industry through fundamental research and market development.
Friends of HEMP is currently supporting research on the energy efficiency of a hempcrete home and analysis the phytocannabinoid spectrum of aquaponically-grown hemp.
Friends of HEMP supports a number of hemp education projects. From awareness programs to local events, we focus much of our fundraising efforts to enable various programming in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and beyond.
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Hemp Tap Takeover Fundraiser!
Join us during Hemp History Week for a Hemp Tap Takeover Fundraiser! Try various hemp beers from breweries across Central Kentucky! The robust flavors and variety of beers will have you thirsty for more!
June 7th, Rock House Brewing, Lexington, KY
Have questions about hemp?
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
If Kentucky is going to survive … they’re going to have to reach back and grab a plant that our granddaddies used to grow by the thousands of acres.
Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.