{"id":798852,"date":"2019-08-25T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=370341"},"modified":"2019-08-25T09:00:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T15:00:54","slug":"summit-sees-growth-in-cbd-businesses-as-hemp-products-become-popular-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-sees-growth-in-cbd-businesses-as-hemp-products-become-popular-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit sees growth in CBD businesses as hemp products become popular nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A display of Brecken Gold products at the Breckenridge Hemp Co. at 226 S. Main St. in Breckenridge.<\/strong>
Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

FRISCO \u2014 CBD businesses are popping up all over the state as a way for people to enjoy the purported physical and emotional benefits of the cannabis plant without the THC, or psychoactive response. Businesses have gotten especially creative with the ways in which their customers can use and administer CBD and are working to educate people on how the cannabidiol can be used and how it\u2019s different from marijuana.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarijuana was Beyonce. Hemp is Adele. They\u2019re both superstars. There\u2019s just a different following of people,\u201d said Tyler Lehmann, owner of Breckenridge Hemp Co., which opened in August 2017 as the first CBD-exclusive shop in Summit County.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were the only one in town when we first started.\u201d Lehmann said. \u201cNow it\u2019s everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are three CBD-exclusive shops in Summit County along with more than nine dispensaries that sell CBD in addition to other cannabis products. This explosion of CBD is nationwide, but Summit County\u2019s shops cater to visitors and the local market. <\/p>\n

\u201cSummit County is interesting in that a fair amount of my customers are from out of state, so they come to Colorado because we\u2019ve been doing it longer. But they aren\u2019t sure what CBD is, so I think we\u2019re in a great position to educate people,\u201d JP Oils owner Jill Thornton-Winckler said.<\/p>\n

As competition grows, each company attempts to differentiate itself in order to grow its customer following. <\/p>\n

Breckenridge Hemp Co. takes pride in its manufacturing process, touting an extraction process that doesn\u2019t use chemicals. This process of extraction using only roasting and coconut oil can take two to three months, but Lehmann swears by the purity of the technique.<\/p>\n

JP Oils markets its CBD products as \u201cfarm to table.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Local business owner Tyler Lehmann operates the Breckenridge Hemp Co. from the historic \u201clittle yellow house\u201d on 226 S. Main St. in Breckenridge.<\/strong>
Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI sell only Colorado farm-to-table CBD products, so to speak. So the people who own the company farm it, manufacture it and label it. I think it\u2019s really important that you know who\u2019s growing the hemp in order to hold them accountable,\u201d Thornton-Winckler said.<\/p>\n

The third company, Pharmstrong, is unique in that it creates CBD products with zero THC while conventional CBD products contain as much as 0.03% THC. The products also are produced in a pharmaceutical-grade lab, and the certificate of analysis is posted online. <\/p>\n

Local dispensaries also are getting into the CBD game, selling pure CBD as well as a mixture of CBD and THC.<\/p>\n

Joseph Lindsey, education specialist at High Country Healing, said the mixture is beneficial due to the entourage effect, or the idea that the effects of CBD are stronger when combined with THC. Lindsey explained that customers taking the mixture will feel some psychoactive effects but that the effects will be lessened by the CBD.<\/p>\n

Lindsey said he thinks CBD is especially popular in Summit County because of its ability to help manage pain in a place where residents experience a higher volume of injuries recreating in the outdoors.<\/p>\n

Thornton-Winckler added that the popularity correlates with the high volume of out-of-state visitors, who trust local cannabis and hemp companies to deliver a quality product because Colorado has been in the business for longer than other states and has more regulations. <\/p>\n

\u201cCBD has made its mark, and it\u2019s going to stay there. The customers\u2019 mentality has already changed. We have more people who accept it and understand it and know that it works. We\u2019ll always need pain relief \u2026 that need is just going to grow,\u201d Lindsey said.<\/p>\n

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A display of Brecken Gold products at the Breckenridge Hemp Co. at 226 S. Main St. in Breckenridge.Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com FRISCO \u2014 CBD businesses are popping up all over the state as a way for people to enjoy the purported physical and emotional benefits of the cannabis plant without the THC, or psychoactive response. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 13:43:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}