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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		A Farm Reborn with a Purpose: Phillips Couple Grows CBD to Help Veterans Sleep
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:48
	Publish Date:		2021-05-06 11:28:32
	Description:		On Tuesday, Joe Rivas walked up the creaky, wooden ramp to the hayloft of a decades-old, white-painted barn near Phillips. Inside, hundreds of harvested cannabis plants hung on lines to dry. The image was something like an upside-down Christmas tree farm. Each is a variety of hemp, rich in the therapeutic substance cannabidiol, or CBD. They have little or no THC. That is, you can’t get high on anything grown here. Steps away, inside the century-old farmhouse, Joe’s partner, Marisa Budej, tended to the seed-producing “mother” plants that will give life to this year’s crop. To spur growth, each was under intense light. Elsewhere that day, at the couple’s processing space in the Phillips business park, Marisa opened giant white bags holding dried plants grown last year. At a glance, they looked something like the tumbleweed seen in old Westerns. Each place plays a role in the hemp growing and drying process, the first steps Joe and Marisa use to make CBD products. The next steps are more
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