Kim Shukla, Executive Director of the Canadian Hemp Trade Allianceis interviewed by Edgar Winters of the Oregon Agriculture & Food Rural Consortium (OAFRC) and COO, Natural Good Medicines in Eagle Point, Oregon. Canada is way ahead in the growing of industrial hemp and Edgar wants to learn from their experience as Oregon tip toes into the marketplace. Industrial hemp is crucial to rural economic development desires and efforts. 

This interview was conducted at the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance (CJTA/ACCC) National Hemp Convention, Hemp 2014: Paving the Way held November 16-19, 2014 in Delta Winnepeg and was filmed by Barry Heidt.

Hemp Industries Association President, Anndrea Herrmann on Hemp Regulations and Challenge was  interviewed by the Investing News Network interview. Hermann explains the regulations surrounding hemp in the United States and elsewhere in the world, also touching on what challenges her organization faces in educating the public about hemp. In closing, she gives an overview of the many interesting uses of hemp. May 16, 2014.

This is a spirited interview with the pioneers of the U.S. Hemp Industry at the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance (CJTA/ACCC) National Hemp Convention, Hemp 2014: Paving the Way held November 16-19, 2014 in Delta Winnepeg.

It's a spirited conversation that should not be missed. 

 - Edgar Winters, interviewer, of the Oregon Agriculture & Food Rural Consortium (OAFRC)  and COO of Natural Good Medicines

- Anndrea Hermann, President of the Hemp Industries Association and a professor at Oregon State University. She addresses the steps necessary to building "a really solid legitimate industry" through Agronomy, the science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, fibre, and land reclamation and emphasized, " while working with our partners and our colleagues around the world

- Doug Fine, " Everything I do as a journalist has a "sustainability and optimistic angle." A hemp  advocate, he references a community-based tri-cropping blueprint found in his book, Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution.

Washington DC update of legislative action on industrial hemp by 5 activists, narrated by Doug McVay to include panelists: Steve Levine, Dave Seber, Adam Eidinger, David Bronner and David Pillar at Hemfest 2013.