Charles CollierThe Denmark News

MADISON — The Wisconsin Dept. of Justice sent shivers through Wisconsin’s budding hemp industry when a May 4 memo from Attorney General Brad Schimel seemed to endanger the crop’s currently most-profitable form: Cannabidiol oil, or CBD oil.

Less than a week later, DOJ and Schimel backed off their hardline stance to give breathing room to Wisconsin’s first hemp harvest in at least 60 years.