WPR to host discussion on legalized hemp farming

WAUSAU – Wisconsin Public Radio’s Route 51 takes a look at the future of legalized hemp farming in Wisconsin.

WPR host Glen Moberg will moderate a discussion at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 7, with Sen. Patrick Testin, R-Stevens Point, who spearheaded the push to legalize hemp in the Wisconsin state legislature; Larry Konopacki, general counsel for the Wisconsin Hemp Alliance; and Ken Anderson, founder and CEO of Legacy Hemp, a hemp seed and marketing company based in Prescott, Wisconsin.

Industrial hemp has a wide variety of uses ranging from food products and medicine to textiles, electronics and construction material. It was banned from cultivation in the U.S. because it is closely related to marijuana.

Route 51 airs at 10 a.m. Thursdays on The Ideas Network stations 101.3 and 91.9 Wausau, AM 930 Auburndale/Stevens Point, 99.1 Stevens Point, 100.9 Marshfield, 90.3 Park Falls, 89.1 Adams/Wisconsin Rapids, HD 90.9-3 and 89.9 Rhinelander/Eagle River. The program is re-broadcast at 7 p.m. Fridays on 90.9 Wausau.