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Kristen Nichols

Kristen is a Denver-based reporter for Marijuana Business Daily specializing in the hemp and CBD industries. Previously, she worked at the Associated Press for nearly 20 years. She started covering the marijuana legalization movement in 2009 – when medical stores started popping up around Denver – and wrote about the state’s first legal hemp harvest. Kristen also covered agriculture and politics in Maryland and her home state of Georgia


Articles by Kristen Nichols :

Hemp State Highlight: Virginia’s changing hemp model could pay big dividends

You can’t make money growing hemp in Virginia. Literally, even though the plant is legal.

Virginia bans farmers from selling the crop commercially and limits hemp production to a handful of university research projects.

If that strikes you as odd for a state with centuries of experience growing hemp, you’re not alone.