Rhode Island hemp industry faces uncertainty amid federal crackdown on THC products • Rhode Island Current

Rhode Island hemp industry faces uncertainty amid federal crackdown on THC products • Rhode Island Current

Rows of hemp flower shown at Lovewell Farms in Hopkinton in 2023, the largest outdoor cannabis farm in Rhode Island. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current)Mike Simpson is one of Rhode Island’s biggest cheerleaders for hemp cultivation and the plant’s derivative products — remedies, he believes, that may help where pharmaceutical medicines cannot.  It’s that very reason Simpson helped co-found Rhode Island’s only outdoor hemp farm, wher…