Hemp, Inc. Announces its Majority-Owned Oregon Hemp Company and Processing Center Begins Operations in Record Time
Spring Hope, NC, Sept. 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- Hemp, Inc. (OTC PINK: HEMP), a global leader in the industrial hemp industry with the largest multipurpose industrial hemp processing facility in the western hemisphere, announced today the company’s majority-owned hemp cultivation and processing company, Local Processing Center, Inc. (LPC) in Medford, Oregon, has begun processing the harvest of more than 100,000 pounds of industrial hemp from the first of many farms they have contracted with in that area (which also includes many of their own hemp farms). Hemp, Inc. announced Sept. 6 that it had entered into a majority ownership agreement with JNV Farms LLC for the Medford, Oregon-based LPC.
Hemp, Inc. has created strategic partnerships with farmers across the state to provide them with services including drying, curing and storing industrial hemp. Hemp, Inc. maintains the first right of refusal to purchase the hemp, and will also act as liaison between manufacturing companies and farmers looking to sell their crop in instances where Hemp, Inc. declines to purchase. (More information on opportunities to partner with Hemp, Inc. to sell or buy hemp biomass can be found by contacting ir@hempinc.com.)
“We built and started processing hemp in Oregon at record breaking speed,” said Hemp, Inc. CEO Bruce Perlowin. “Our greenhouses at Local Processing Center, Inc. are quickly filling up with industrial hemp as we are on the frontlines of meeting the demand for an industrial hemp infrastructure on the West Coast. As demand continues to increase, we are diligently scouting additional locations all across America for industrial hemp local processing centers to service this multi-billion dollar industry.”
According to a recent report by the Brightfield Group, the hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) market alone could hit $22 billion by 2022. Hemp, Inc. will be able to create a pipeline of industrial hemp and hemp products in states, where legal, on the West Coast. This makes Hemp, Inc. a bi-coastal hemp processing center in America with many more hemp processing centers planned for other areas where Hemp is being grown.
Hemp, Inc. previously announced its joint venture with Dolan Station in Dolan Springs, Arizona, to sell high-end CBD and Hemp, Inc. products, including Hemp, Inc.’s, soon to be launched King of Hemp™ high-end CBD hemp pre-rolls and hemp buds.
There are notably now over 40 states in the nation that have legalized hemp, which has over 50,000 uses. The U.S. Congress included a pathway to hemp growing in the 2014 Farm Bill, which allows states to run pilot programs to research its viability for commercial production. The Hemp Farming Act in the 2018 Farm Bill is expected to federally legalize hemp before the current Farm Bill expires Sept. 30, 2018.
Hemp, Inc.'s 85,000 square foot industrial hemp processing facility, on over 59 acres in Spring Hope, North Carolina, is the only one of this magnitude in the western hemisphere. It is indeed bound to become the mecca of this new clean green agricultural and industrial American revolution. It has been shipping out product by the truckload. According to Perlowin, another two to four truckloads are expected to go out next week, indicating that “production and sales are now picking up steam”. At the same time, the North Carolina industrial hemp processing facility is starting the build-out of a second local processing center which is specifically designed to dry, cure, store and market hemp biomass similar to the Oregon Local Processing Center.
“As we continue to execute our strategic vision to expand our footprint across the U.S. (and the world), we are able to diversify our portfolio to include markets beyond our headquarters in North Carolina, allowing us to create increased value for our shareholders,” said Perlowin. “Now that the largest facility has been up and running for over a year and is shipping out product by the semi-load, we are focusing on Division Two and Division Three.” (To read more about these Divisions, click here.)
Hemp, Inc. is helping to build the industrial hemp infrastructure that was basically non-existent in America. And five years later, it’s still in its infancy as our nation, gradually, embraces industrial hemp as a new emerging multi-trillion dollar industrial agricultural green revolution. Hemp, Inc. has been building six hemp infrastructures, Divisions One through Six (the 6th Division just launched):
Division One – The Industrial Hemp Infrastructure
Division Two – The Hemp Extraction Infrastructure
Division Three – The Hemp Farming Infrastructure
Division Four – The Hemp Educational Infrastructure
Division Five – The Hemp Marketing Infrastructure
Division Six - Accessories, Products and Services
Division Six is the company’s newest division to be formed which focuses on the sale of hemp accessories such as the sale of extractors, storage bags, containers, fertilizer, soil amendments, humidifiers, dehumidifiers, balers, greenhouses, and greenhouse equipment; the drying, trimming, curing, storing and brokering for other farmers; and ultimately anything else a hemp farmer may need to be successful.
Moreover, Hemp, Inc.’s strategic hemp growing partner, Veteran Village Kins Community Arizona, Inc., has a 500-acre Veteran Village Kins Community in Golden Valley, Arizona. The Veteran Village Kins Community is designed to grow hemp and produce cannabidiol (CBD) products to benefit veterans as well as generate revenue for Hemp, Inc., the Veteran Village, and individual veterans living in the community. Already a $100 million industry, the CBD market is expected to grow over 700% and balloon to $2.1 billion by 2020.
For a more complete description on the Veteran Village Kins Community, read the following, modified, October 24, 2017 press release, Hemp, Inc. Announces Strategic Hemp Growing Partner "Veteran Village Kins Community Arizona, Inc." Completes Final Site Plan
Blueprints, below:
Hemp, Inc. has announced that its strategic growing partner, "Veteran Village Kins Community Arizona, Inc.", has completed its final site plan blueprints for its 500-acre site in Golden Valley, Arizona (20 miles north of Kingman, AZ and 90 minutes from Las Vegas, NV). The site plan was submitted to the Mohave County Building Department for final review. The Company is also in the final stages of completing the necessary infrastructure to support an off-grid, renewable, energy system. With the solar equipment in place, the site's solar power operation will be completed in the next days.
As soon as the live streaming video cameras are up and operational, the world can actually see the way the Veteran Village Kins Community is designed and watch it being built. According to Perlowin, the basic framework or overall plan of the Veteran Village Kins Communities is to create a holistic healing and learning center that is designed to educate and heal veterans with PSTD, alcoholism, meth addiction, opioid addiction, and other psychological conditions while at the same time training them on the numerous aspects of being part of the emerging multi-billion dollar hemp industry.
We will also be building hemp-growing communities for other groups such as "Abused" Women & Children Village Kins Communities, the "Orphaned" Children Village Kins Communities, "Homeless" Village Kins Communities and the "Healers" Village Kins Communities (the healers are professionals who are knowledgeable in the modalities to treat these traumatized groups). These particular communities are all synergistically aligned to work simultaneously supporting each other.
For example, the "Healers" heal the traumatized veterans and women & children; the women support orphan children and orphan children want to see people living in homes and not homeless. Thus, a portion of the hemp grown in each community goes to create and support another community, giving everybody a sense of giving back and helping others as they help themselves. This circles back to the healers who also work to heal the veterans and the other traumatized groups. This is the economic foundation on how the sale of the hemp products operates as a "quantum economic matrix" or an example of "symbiotic economics" which is more complex than this brief description allows.
Dwight Jory, the Project Manager for the "Veteran Village Kins Community Arizona, Inc.," said, "We are very happy with the progress. Our Kins Community is really beginning to come together." In anticipation of planting to begin during the spring, 300 acres have been fenced, 16 overnight trailer park sites are under construction, and six 40x40-ft organic vegetable gardens have been planted and are currently producing food and kenaf, according to Jory. These organic gardens double as experimental growing modules using an entire array of different growing technologies to see which modalities grow the best in a desert environment. As for the 6 geodesic domes mentioned in an earlier press release, 1 is structurally complete with only the electrical and plumbing to be completed. The rest are on site awaiting final site plan approval.
"We are now accepting volunteers who have expressed an interest in helping to build the first Kins Community for our veterans," said Jory. Those interested in making the first hemp growing CBD-producing "Veteran Village Kins Community" become a reality should contact Ms. Sandra Williams via email (swilliams@hempinc.com).
One thousand trees, on 36 of the 500-acres, have also been planted, with an additional 1,000 trees on order. The "Veteran Village Kins Community" will include a 100,000-square foot GMP compliant, central processing plant, a state-of-the-art testing laboratory, and various health and wellness centers to support veterans who may have psychological, emotional or health issues.
"As Hemp, Inc. positions itself on the forefront of America's industrial hemp revolution, we see our partnership with 'Veteran Village Kins Community Arizona, Inc.' being paramount in supporting the small family farm movement that we are confident will reshape the American landscape," said Perlowin. "As we work toward getting our eco-village up and running in Arizona, we are also aggressively scouting strategic locations in other states including North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia. Giving veterans and other Americans a place to learn new skills and take part in this multi-billion-dollar hemp CBD market is very exciting. It's a big part of our mission to give back. Recently we have expanded our Kins Community concept internationally focusing, but not limited to, Israel, New Zealand, Canada, Africa, and Uruguay."
According to Perlowin, we hope to have 50 "master hemp growers" working on their first Veteran Village Kins Community in Arizona. To date, we have growers from Oregon, Colorado, California, Kentucky, North Carolina, Nevada and, Arizona who have expressed an interest in pursuing a joint venture with Hemp, Inc. to each grow industrial hemp on 5 of the 300 fenced acres in Arizona. Perlowin says he'll call this "The Great United American Hemp Project." Any grower having an interest in pursuing a joint venture on 5 of the 300 fenced in acres in Arizona should contact Project Manager Dwight Jory. Or, anyone interested in attending the 2 - 7-day hands-on hempcrete house building should contact Dwight Jory as well. (Dates to be determined.)
ABOUT HEMP, INC.
With a deep-rooted social and environmental mission at its core, Hemp, Inc. seeks to build a business constituency for the American small farmer, the American veteran, and other groups experiencing the ever-increasing disparity between tapering income and soaring expenses. As a leader in the industrial hemp industry with ownership of the largest commercial multi-purpose industrial hemp processing facility in North America, Hemp, Inc. believes there can be tangible benefits reaped from adhering to a corporate social responsibility plan.
SOCIAL NETWORKS
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https://www.facebook.com/KingOfPot (Bruce Perlowin's Facebook Page)
https://www.facebook.com/TheHempUniversity/ (The Hemp University's Facebook Page)
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UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC EVENTS
Across the globe, the hemp industry is rising to astronomical levels. In the wake of the hemp industry projected to grow 700% and hit $1.8 billion by 2020, there has been more education and networking within the industry. That means more events and conferences, thus, Hemp, Inc. has started compiling an ongoing list of upcoming hemp events around the world. Check out the listing of international and domestic events here.
FORWARD-LOOKING DISCLAIMER AND DISCLOSURES
This press release may contain certain forward-looking statements and information, as defined within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and is subject to the Safe Harbor created by those sections. To clarify the issue of OTC placing a stop sign next to Hemp, Inc.’s stock trading symbol, that symbol indicates Hemp, Inc. does not report their financials. As a non-reporting pink sheet company, Hemp, Inc. is not required to report. The company does, however, choose to publicly report its quarterly and yearly financials on its website. According to the company’s CEO, the OTC stop sign is a misrepresentation of that reporting fact. This material contains statements about expected future events and/or financial results that are forward-looking in nature and subject to risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements by definition involve risks, uncertainties.
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Abolish Immigration Detention
by Andrew Moss
857 words
If you visit a detainee at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center northeast of Los Angeles, you'll turn off Highway 395 onto Rancho Road, travel a short distance, and pull into a parking lot squeezed between the detention facility on your left and a privately run state prison on your right. If you're at the east facility, you'll walk into a small lobby, give the receptionist your ID and the detainee's "A" number, and wait in a space decorated like a health clinic waiting room. There you'll find cheerful nature posters, a TV set playing "Good Day LA," a child's play set in a corner, and Good Housekeeping magazines and a Spanish-language bible hanging on a wall.
When you're notified that your detainee is ready to see you, you leave everything in a locker: pens, paper, keys, cellphone. You are buzzed through heavy metal doors into a visiting area, where you sit across from your detainee under the watchful eye of a guard and a TV surveillance camera. There, three or four other detainees sit as well with their family members, attorneys, or volunteer visitors. You have an hour to be with your detainee, to hear her stories, to offer whatever moral support you can, and to share a hug. Then, time is up, and your detainee, along with the three or four other women in their blue, orange, or red jumpsuits, is ushered out one door, and you through another. You look back at one another one last time.
Something seems very solid about all of this: the barbed wire outside, the heavy metal doors, the waiting room, the jumpsuits. But incongruities force their way into consciousness: the government describes this place as providing "civil, administrative confinement." But you know it's prison. And you wonder why your detainee, an Eritrean who simply asked for asylum when she came across the border six months ago, is imprisoned here. Or why another detainee you've visited, a father and hard worker who had a DUI years ago, was swept up by ICE to languish here for months. Some facts begin to float before the mind's eye:
· This place, the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, is a for-profit facility, run by a publicly traded corporation called the GEO Group, Inc., which made $2.26 billion in revenues from all its enterprises last year.
· Of the roughly 200 detention facilities in the U.S., almost three-fourths are run by for-profit enterprises, generating revenue from the confinement of 34,000 to 40,000 detainees per day, 400,000 per year.
· Detention facilities across the country have been cited by both governmental agencies and advocacy groups for a wide range of human rights abuses, including physical and sexual assault, medical neglect, and poor food and unsanitary conditions. Last year, the organization Human Rights Watch released a report with findings by independent medical experts that more than half the 15 deaths occurring in detention over a sixteen- month period (December 2015 through April 2017) were linked to inadequate medical care.
· The Adelanto ICE Processing Center didn't even exist as an immigration detention facility until 2011, when GEO entered into an agreement with ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and the city of Adelanto to take over an existing prison. In fact, no detention facilities at all existed in the U.S. between 1954, when Ellis Island closed, and 1981, when President Ronald Reagan opened the first one in Puerto Rico to detain Haitian refugees fleeing political chaos and repression in their country.
· The 1980's and 1990's were boom years for the growth of detention facilities, their expansion intertwined with a growth of mass incarceration that scholar Michelle Alexander identified as the "New Jim Crow." Systems of racial oppression and immigration detention have developed hand in hand; Donald Trump's racial discourse (Mexicans as "rapists," immigrants as "animals") is the most recent soundtrack for these developments.
· There are proven, cost-effective alternatives to detention. These are community accompaniment programs, pioneered by organizations like Freedom for Immigrants, that respect people's dignity and rights when they enter this country.
One day, the contractors will come back to the Adelanto ICE Processing Center. Perhaps, as they cut down the barbed wire, they will remodel the place and turn it into a school, or a museum like Ellis Island. Or, perhaps, they'll raze the whole edifice and put up new housing units instead. Whatever the case, you'll know as you drive away that a whole lot of work will have to be done in the meantime. This is the work of changing a mindset. This is the work of moving from opportunistic distortions (immigrants as threats and criminals) to genuine questions: how do we help others become productive, contributing members of our communities? How do we expand our understandings of our own citizenship in the process?
How do we transition from being a republic of fear to being an exemplar for other nations wrestling with issues of migration? And how, in redefining our identities as individuals and as a nation, do we come to see the border not as a site of separation and of threats, but as a place of coming together, as a site of possibility and creativity?
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Andrew Moss, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is an emeritus professor at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he taught in Nonviolence Studies for 10 years.
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Ogden City Hosts Utah Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Summit, Industry Leaders Speak at Conference
OGDEN, UT – Ogden City hosted the Utah Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Summit on September 27, bringing together industry leaders, top researchers, and government officials to discuss the future of UAS in Utah. Topics addressed at the summit included business opportunities, policy and regulatory issues, and the latest technological advances in UAS. The summit also included static and live demonstrations of UAS. The event was held at the Kemp Gateway Center at Ogden-Hinckley Airport and was co-hosted by Deseret UAS and Box Elder County.
The UAS industry is growing rapidly around the world, with applications ranging from defense and security to agriculture and engineering. PwC noted the tremendous growth potential of commercial UAS applications in 2016, commenting, “With an estimated market value of over $127 billion in commercial applications, drones are making the transition from novelty item to indispensable business tool.”
Ogden and the broader Northern Utah region are ideally suited to support the emerging UAS industry. The region has existing strengths in aerospace and defense, along with unique assets such as the Ogden Airport and a UAS test site at Promontory. Ogden City is a key player in collaborative efforts to develop the labor force, education, and innovation needed to support disruptive technologies, including UAS.
Ogden City has been working to support innovative UAS businesses since 2011. For example, the City has worked closely with UtopiaCompression, a leader in UAS sense and avoid technologies, and supported a $1.2 million legislative appropriation for Deseret UAS, which will develop command and control systems for commercial UAS. Both UtopiaCompression and Deseret UAS participated as speakers at the Utah UAS Summit in Ogden.
The Utah UAS Summit attracted more than 140 registered attendees. Attendees enjoyed presentations from industry leaders discussing business opportunities, government officials developing policies for UAS, and researchers from WSU, USU, U of U, and BYU exploring the latest technologies. The event concluded with the unique opportunity to see live demonstrations of UAS at the Ogden Airport.
### Contact Terrence Bride, Division Manager Ogden City Business Development tbride@ogdencity.com | (801) 629-8984
