Longmont hemp producer breaking into fizzy new market

LONGMONT — CFH Ltd., a Longmont hemp grower and CBD product maker, has added a new item to its offerings mix: James & James CBD seltzer. 

In development for about two years, the James & James brand was launched this year and seltzers are now available in retailers throughout Colorado and Wyoming. 

When founder Jim Ott launched CFH nearly a decade ago, “our whole mission was to create products that really help people with their health,” he said. “So from there we worked backward to create a really vertically integrated company.”

Ott and his team “started to do a bunch of R&D on…