Henderson levers engineering to create CBD company

LAFAYETTE — What do you do when you’re a combat veteran and land, after a post-military engineering education, in a company selling high-end gear to a cutting-edge fledgling industry?
You stop selling the gear — in this case CO2 extraction equipment for the hemp-derived CBD industry — and start making CBD, or cannabidiol, the second most prevalent active ingredient in cannabis, known as marijuana.
“It was odd to me that marijuana was becoming so accepted,” said Craig Henderson, CEO of Extract Labs, a Lafayette-based company that extracts oil from hemp to create CBD for a proprietary line of CBD-infused products. “I…
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