Cooking with calm: using CBD oil in the kitchen

Colorado Hemp Honey varieties for sale at Gold Care in Greeley. (Emily Kemme) Josh and Miranda Gutierrez opened their CBD business in early 2017, becoming the first store to sell commercially produced CBD products in Greeley. In 2018, their business, Gold Care, 2015 9th St. in Greeley, started manufacturing hemp CBD products. Josh got into the business after discovering that CBD helped take away his frequent migraines. But the expense of purchasing the product from a dispensary made him evaluate what other options were available in Colorado. The state legalized industrial hemp production in 2014 when it legalized recreational marijuana. The hemp plant is marijuana’s non-psychoactive cannabis relative. With a hemp foods bill signed in May 2018 by Governor John Hickenlooper, Colorado became one of the few states recognizing hemp as a food, food additive or herb for human use or consumption. Thanks to Colorado’s recognition that hemp is a food, in addition to being used as a dietary supplement, the product can be used to cook with. Shown is a bundle of fresh hemp. According to GrowHempColorado , Colorado law requires that a product containing “any part of the hemp plant, including naturally occurring cannabinoids, compounds, concentrates, extracts, isolates, resins or derivatives” must contain no more than a .3% concentration of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, better known as THC, the property of marijuana that creates the high. And last December, the federal government passed the 2018 Hemp Bill, formally removing industrial hemp from the list of controlled substances under the 1970 Controlled Substances Act. Until then, industrial hemp had been illegal to grow since 1939. It is now legalized at the federal level, although state laws vary on legality of CBD. Thanks to Colorado’s recognition that hemp is a food, in addition to being used as a dietary supplement, the […]

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