Hemp Expo will relocate from Loveland to Denver next year

LOVELAND — Organizers of the NoCo Hemp Expo announced that next year it will relocate from The Ranch Events Center in Loveland to Denver after it sold out at this year’s event.

Over April 6 and 7, the fifth annual NoCo Hemp Expo had 6,000 attendees — about 1,300 more than it had last year — and 150 exhibitors.

Because of its growth — when the event started in 2014  it had 350 attendees — it will be held at a larger convention center in the Denver area March 29-30, 2019.

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“The 2018 NoCo Hemp Expo was far and away the biggest and best hemp event we have produced yet,” NoCo Hemp Expo co-founder Morris Beegle said in a prepared statement. “The interest level for this plant and all that it can do was overwhelming. Next year’s NoCo6 event will be moved to a new location. As the great Sheriff Brody once said, ‘We’re going to need a bigger boat!’”

The Hemp Expo is designed to showcase innovations in the $2 billion hemp industry, one that has been growing rapidly. Before the event, the Hemp Farming Act of 2018 was announced, which would remove hemp from the controlled substance list and allow it to be sold as an agricultural commodity.

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