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The question
Colorado needed a strategy that could advance a fast-moving new agricultural sector while reconciling federal rules, public safety, research needs, financing constraints, and the realities of the value chain.
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MPG's approach
- Facilitate working groups representing the full hemp value chain and synthesize competing priorities.
- Coordinate economic, agricultural, legal, research, and policy specialists.
- Evaluate market development, finance, testing, processing, genetics, and regulatory options.
- Translate the findings into a unified state implementation plan.
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Why it matters
The CHAMP initiative gave state leaders and industry participants a shared roadmap for market development and helped structure one of the country's most forward-looking hemp programs.