Hemp, CBD go mainstream at ExpoWest

Natural Products ExpoWest is the biggest natural products trade show in the nation, but one segment within natural products is rapidly taking over both the convention and the industry.

Hemp and CBD companies accounted for 170 participants at the 2019 showcase in March, more than four times the number of companies that attended in 2018. A hemp symposium that had a packed house with 500 people in 2018 overflowed the 700-person room booked this year, plus two additional rooms of 200 people for live streaming.

As the CBD craze takes over mainstream consciousness,…