Industry leaders urge governor to classify hemp, CBD businesses as `essential`

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) -- Hemp industry leaders in Wisconsin are asking state officials to reconsider its classification of hemp and hemp products as "non-essential business."

In a letter written to Gov. Tony Evers, officials from the Wisconsin Hemp Alliance, Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation and Wisconsin Hemp Farmers and Manufacturers Association said the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) has taken the opinion that CBD shops and the retail sale of hemp and hemp products are non-essential businesses per the Safer at Home Order.

"While we certainly appreciate and understand the enormous and unprecedented challenges Wisconsin is facing right now, we believe WEDC is misguided in its opinion, and that hemp businesses are essential and therefore must not be required to close," the letter said....

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Ken Notes: I did look up the fact that the Illinois Stores are open and while they carry much more they do have CBD.