In its purified distilled form, CBD oil commands thousands of dollars per kilogram, and farmers can make more than $100,000 an acre growing hemp plants to produce it. The state's climate is perfect for growing marijuana, and growers produced bumper crops. At some point, there's no more storage for it," Trey Willison said, who switched his operation from marijuana to hemp this season. "There are a lot of growers who already have experience growing cannabis, and when you're growing for CBD, there are a lot of the same techniques that you use for growing marijuana," he said. He breeds hemp plants genetically selected for their strong CBD concentration, harvests the seeds and extracts CBD from the remaining plants that can fetch up to $13,000 per kilogram.

Source: ABC News May 14, 2018 06:33 UTC