The assent given by President Trump to the 2018 Farm Bill has thrown the U.S. marketing landscape into a frenzy and why not so? CBD is projected to rake in a staggering $23 billion by 2025. This, however, is fraught with some bottlenecks especially as it regards social media advertising. Vote Hemp’s report, that the total of 23,343 acres of hemp farmed across the nation in 2017, more than doubled in 2018, to 77,000 acres from over 3,500 participants is an indisputable sign that the CBD market is in for a big boom in years to come. This is in addition to the observation by the Federation of American Scientists who reported that the number of imported hemp from Canada and China is on the decrease, it was $67.3 million in 2017 compared to $78.1 million in 2015. Farmers are buoyed to invest more in hemp as a result of provisions in the Farm Bill that guaranteed them crop insurance, interstate transportation of their products, and basic banking facilities which are very vital but were only available to the typical and traditional farmers. There are high expectations of exceptional and bumper harvests and higher investments by brands in the CBD…
