What Plants Crave feat. Dr. Allison Justice

This episode is from the vault! It’s part of our “What Plants Crave” series, where Dr. Sabeh speaks with growers, researchers, and other experts in other engineers, growers, and manufacturers who work in controlled environment agriculture, to get their insights about the direction of the industry, and of course, what exactly it is that plants crave.

This week’s episode features Dr. Allison Justice, founder and CEO of The Hemp Mine, and it was originally recorded at last year’s Cannabis Conference in Las Vegas. Learn more about hemp, Dr. Allison Justice’s career, growing indoors, and more.

• More about Dr. Allison Justice

  Dr. Allison Justice graduated Clemson University with a Ph.D. in Plant and Environmental Science. After graduation, Dr. Justice joined the cannabis industry, teaming up with OutCo LLC., a vertically integrated cannabis producer in San Diego, CA. She pioneered industry research focused on controlled agricultural lighting and post-harvest production.
  
  Currently, Dr. Justice is founder and CEO of The Hemp Mine, a South Carolina based vertically integrated hemp company. In addition to farming 30 acres, The Hemp Mine supplies premium hemp young plants bred in house across the US. Additionally, THM conducts contract research for a wide range of vendors providing real results on a large-scale setting. The Hemp Mine produces a wide array of consumer products ranging from smokable flower to topicals to tinctures of different concentrations for both humans and animals.
  Of 2022, The Hemp Mine has partnered with Clemson University to create the Cannabis Research Coalition (CRC). The CRC’s mission is to partner with cannabis-industry stakeholders to advance the exploration of the cannabis plant and implement science-based research to develop the techniques required to create a sustainable, efficient, and profitable industry.

• More about the Cannabis Research Coalition

  The CRC website

  Jim Faust at Clemson University