{"id":2452795,"date":"2020-01-01T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/some-bad-buzz-about-hemp\/"},"modified":"2020-01-02T08:37:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T15:37:46","slug":"some-bad-buzz-about-hemp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/some-bad-buzz-about-hemp\/","title":{"rendered":"Some bad buzz about hemp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In her Dec. 24 letter to the Aspen Times, Jackie Chenoweth of Carbondale extols the virtues of industrial hemp (<a id=\"N0x1690290N0x17c4120:N0x1690290N0x183f240\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/hempy-holidays-to-all\/\">\u201cHempy holidays to all\u201d<\/a>). She writes that it can help to heal our planet by replacing \u201cfossil fuel based plastics, toxic building materials, synthetic fibers, harmful chemicals, etc., etc.\u201d She calls hemp \u201can integral part of the solution\u201d to climate change. So far, so good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">What she does not tell us is how hemp production impacts our pollinators. Poor or inadequate nutrition can be a major stress on pollinators \u2014 including honeybees and native bees. Wind-pollinated hemp flowers are rarely visited by bees or other pollinators. Alfalfa, on the other hand, is a rich and important nectar and pollen source for a host of bee species. It\u2019s also one of the most common field crops in Western Colorado. That\u2019s good for bees. Yet we are witnessing the relentless conversion of alfalfa ground to hemp, resulting in less food for pollinators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Hemp holds the potential to dramatically alter our agricultural landscape. The press so far has been largely positive. But let\u2019s all be aware of unintended consequences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Ed Colby<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">President, Colorado State Beekeepers Association<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">New Castle<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/some-bad-buzz-about-hemp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her Dec. 24 letter to the Aspen Times, Jackie Chenoweth of Carbondale extols the virtues of industrial hemp (\u201cHempy holidays to all\u201d). She writes that it can help to heal our planet by replacing \u201cfossil fuel based plastics, toxic building materials, synthetic fibers, harmful chemicals, etc., etc.\u201d She calls hemp \u201can integral part of [&hellip;]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 23:10:16","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452812,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452795\/revisions\/2452812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}