Inside an unassuming yet sprawling industrial building nestled within the high plains of Watkins, about a 30-minute drive southeast of Denver International Airport, step into Kazmira Therapeutics’ “hemp bay,” as it’s affectionately called.
Stacked and lined on pallets and metal shelves are dozens of cloth bags weighing upward of 170 pounds each.
They’re filled with raw harvested hemp, including from Colorado farms — tri-colored, dense flower buds; stalks; leaves and all — waiting to be moved into an adjacent manufacturing facility. There, the plant will undergo a closed-loop, 29-step purification process wherein only pure, medical-grade cannabidiol (CBD) will remain, the primary non-psychoactive compound found in hemp…