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joints oils
gummies even dog treats all of these
products contain cbd from cannabis
plants
we have a machine over here that does up
to 25 000 free roast a day
it's big business here at the green toad
hemp farm in meadow georgia the first
black-owned cannabis dispensary in the
state workers cultivate and harvest the
crop
reginald reese co-founder of the green
toad farm found his way to cannabis as a
means of managing pain i was dealing
with some medical issues i had spine
surgery hip replacement
knee surgery hand surgery cbd enabled me
to transition off of opioids i knew i
needed to do research on this plant cbd
or cannabidiol is a chemical found in
the cannabis plant some users claim it
to be a beneficial treatment for pain
anxiety and insomnia but more research
is needed the only condition that it's
been scientifically determined to treat
effectively is certain types of epilepsy
nevertheless demand for cbd products
remains high in georgia a state where
cannabis consumption is still highly
regulated and criminalized farmers can
grow the plant but there's a catch that
definition of hemp is that legally is
defined as a cannabis plant that has .3
or less thc
in it
so the objective is to be able to grow
it and harvest it before it gets to or
when it gets to that point cbd products
containing more than .3 of
tetrahydrocannabinol
or thc the chemical responsible for most
of the plant's psychoactive effects are
still illegal in georgia
green toad sends all of its cannabis
products out for testing to sj labs and
analytics the first hemp testing lab in
georgia located in the town of
sarah checks samples for contaminants
like mold and bacteria and crucially
ensures their thc content is within the
legal range
we grind it up and it becomes this
really fine powder
and you can actually see the powder
right here like how fine it gets we want
it to be this fine so that we can really
get all the cannabinoids and then we'll
use a filter to make sure that we're
only getting our cannabinoids if labs
has revealed a product exceeds 0.3 thc
farmers like reggie and dewayne must
retest the sample if it fails again they
must then destroy the crop and thousands
of dollars and hours of labor are gone
if the crop isn't destroyed growers may
face legal consequences including arrest
last year
we
kind of went outside that window with
some strings
that went
extremely hot meaning that they were
just right
uh
doing that window and the tac level
spiked tremendously so we had to end up
destroying it this is our newborn
chamber we want them to get a little bit
bigger a little bit stronger before we
actually move them out to the field
testing of these plants will happen 15
days before they're harvested that's
when their thc content is evaluated and
certified it's a constraint that's
central to dwayne and reggie's business
model so our goal now is a thousand by a
thousand meaning we want to be in a
thousand locations
uh in a thousand days and that's what
the future is for us is to be a
household name and to hold that spot and
be sustainable in our business and serve
as a great example of what's possible
for our people
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