Floridians said they believe hemp businesses will boom this year and are hopeful about it.
“It’s just everything we worked on for two years is now in front of you. It’s very exciting,” said Holly Bell, the Director of Cannabis for the Florida Department of Agriculture.
Bell said she could barely contain her excitement looking at all the harvested plants in the middle of a greenhouse in Central Florida.
Bell said she knows that 2021 is the year for hemp to take over.
“What we’re seeing in our preliminary numbers from our economists in our groups is tax revenues in the first full 12 months around $17 million,” Bell said.
She said that hemp is already bringing in lots of money, but also thousands of jobs.