He says a deliberate, sustainable strategy for growth, a premium-quality product and a passion for hemp’s potential to improve lives have helped Arrowhead stay the course.

Source: https://mountainx.com/news/wnc-growers-sellers-plant-seeds-for-what-they-hope-is-a-flowering-industry/

It started as a way of keeping federal agents employed after alcohol prohibition ended, and as a way of thwarting industrial hemp’s competition with wood-pulp paper and various textiles.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/02/27/instead-of-stuck-in-court-or-on-some-future-ballot-legal-marijuana-should-be-on-desantiss-desk-asap/