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Podcast: IEN Radio
Episode: CBD Makers Sue for $44M Over Bad Seeds
Description: Elemental Processing of Lexington, Kentucky is suing Oregon-based HP Farms for $44 million over bad seeds.Elemental Processing produces CBD, a wildly popular plant extract used in various treatments.According to Oregon Live, Elemental claims that HP Farms sold it more than six million mostly worthless hemp seeds. Elemental says that most of the seeds were male, whereas it is the feminized plants that produce the flower. The biggest problem is that Elemental didn't know that it had a bum crop until the seeds had sprouted and farmers had to plow them under.