Special Edition: Kentucky Hemp Pioneer Joe Hickey

This is the final installment of a four-part series consisting of conversations recorded at the NoCo Hemp Expo in Denver, CO, on March 24-25, 2022. On this episode we talk to Joe Hickey, a Kentucky businessman who has been in the hemp industry for over 30 years.

He is the founder of the Kentucky Hemp Growers Cooperative and currently works with Halcyon Technology Holding. He also worked with actor Woody Harrelson to test the limits of Kentucky's laws against industrial hemp in the 1990s. Their collaboration can be seen in the documentary film Hempsters: Plant the Seed.

Hickey tells numerous enlightening from those early days in the industry and offers advice to today's industry on how to develop markets through strategic purchase agreements with large manufactures.

Halcyon Technology Holdings

https://halcyon420.com/

Hempsters: Plant the Seed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HBFkXIS0wE

Noco Hemp Expo

https://www.nocohempexpo.com/