I also don’t understand $200/k coming out of Uruguay. Uruguay is not a developing country like the rest of SA. Cost of living down there is almost the same as the US. They’re certainly not getting away with paying employees $5/day.
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United We Stand, Divided We Fall.
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I have a client from uruguay. That does not sound in line with what i heard. He was actually processing oil here to send back there because he says processors there are having to go through a pharmaceutical approval process. Uruguay as you know actually legalized cannabis but their laws are in fact quite restrictive
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Even a body high is psychoactivity. However if what you’re saying is true and pure d8 really has no intoxicating effects at all, go ahead and sell it.
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I AM AN OIL MAN
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I have vaped Delta 8 and it definitely gets me high. I can’t vouch for whether it was hemp derived or had Delta 9 in it too. Curious as to who can describe pure 8 from hemp.
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Oh I know it. That’s what I was saying, Uruguay is a very developed country. I made the mistake of thinking it was going to be the same cost of living as Peru when I went backpacking down there a few years ago. That was a rough couple weeks on my budget.
I prefer “oil barren”. 
@coppertop Were you there when they legalized drugs?
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Interesting thought.
There was an auction held last week, and most of the CBD biomass didn’t go over $1.00/lb. Most of the farmers just turned around and headed home. That was in Tennessee.
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So, new thought. Since the CBD industry is being over-saturated, why wouldn’t we use the plant to make hempcrete, clothing, or something else that is useful? I spoke with a member of iHemp Michigan, John Freeman, who said that this plant was used to make a wide variety of products back in the day.
Any thoughts on this? Sounds like there is definitely a way to make money with these plants (in my opinion).
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Listen to this podcast! Chris Fontes is a very smart guy who created a platform to connect buyers with sellers. Here are his thoughts on the situation! This auction was held at a very “lop-sided” time.
Yes, we work with Chris. Please excuse my bias. Still interesting!
Mostly due to the number of plants per acre for the type of grow.
For instance, depending on the farmer’s row spacing, hemp for CBD biomass can range from 1800-2500 plants per acre. As the plants are grown for flowers.
For textile use, a different strain is chosen for its fibers, and broadcasted at up to 400,000 an acre.
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That is a good freaking question and one I’ve been asking at every conference i go to. It seems like there is a lot of infrastructure that needs to be put together to run those operations.
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There is a lot of work to get it up and running but I can only imagine that the markets for those industries will grow in the near future. That means someone is going to make a lot of money!
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I see. Thanks for the information. So everyone focused their crops on flower and biomass rather than stalks for textile?
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Its probably because the drug vatieties of cannabis dont yeild as much fiber as the varieties used for materials production