Hemp Picks

04/10/2020

I feel very disheartened to make this post during such hard times, but some people are taking advantage of this crisis while others are trying to make the best of it.

As we are preparing to start approximately 10,000 h**p seedlings for small farmers, our former employee, Justin Earhart, stole one of our brand new 1,000 watt LED grow lights from our facility that we were relying on to get this job done. This light is top of the line brand new technology and cost us $1,600.00. You can see him using his key to access the building, remove the light from our grow lab that only he and I have a key to, and loading the light into his Toyota 4Runner. Also, if you view his profile picture, he is proudly standing in front of the new light after we first purchased it, and references his work with us all over his social media accounts.

I've communicated Justin Earhart several times since we found out it was missing to find out what happened. After saying that it may have been accidentally moved to his "storage unit" and that he would need time to "check on it" I had to search through hours of video surveillance before finding this video of him stealing the light. I called him many times to try and arrange the return of the light and he has made every excuse why he can't do it before blocking my phone number and ending all communication. We were honestly blown away by his actions because he has been such a dedicated employee and has been a great asset to our company. After struggling to keep him employed as a master grower in this industry for the past two years, giving continuous pay increases for his work, we found out that he was padding his hours on his paychecks and stealing other equipment and materials from our facility before stealing our LED light for his own purposes.

Unfortunately, I was forced to file a police report against him and a warrant has been issued for his arrest for grand larceny. If you have any information leading to Justin Earhart's arrest, we are prepared to offer a modest reward of $100. You can contact the Parkersburg Police Department to report any information on his whereabouts. Thank you in advance for any information you can provide, we appreciate your help!

06/14/2019

Check out the H**p Picks Pop-up Liquidation Sale today! We are located in the old Drive Thru Carryout located directly behind the American Legion across from the Traffic Circle McDonalds!

06/14/2019

H**p Picks Pop-up Liquidation Sale starting now, come check out our low prices on great quality h**p products!!!

01/29/2019

Big shout out from the West Virginia Farmers Cooperative Inc. to Kent Leonhardt for requesting money from the Legislature to help run the h**p program this session!

“We are requesting $310,000 for personnel upgrades so can have the full staff to run the program effectively,” Leonhardt said. “The result is more income for the state.”

This is literally an investment in the future of the state's agricultural economy! Please show your support for this vision for WV agriculture by sharing this story and asking your representatives to support these funding measures. Providing the proper budget to regulate this exciting new cash crop helps farmers to diversify and to raise more local produce!

http://www.theintelligencer.net/news/top-headlines/2019/01/leonhardt-asking-west-virginia-legislature-to-invest-in-agriculture/

01/13/2019

H**p Picks will be offering a $500 reward for any information leading to the identification, location, and arrest of the men pictured in this post.

As many of you know, we have been ramping up to open our retail store. Well, these small time robbers just couldn't wait to see what we had, so they broke in and stole about half of it :D

We're very sorry everybody, but we will be pushing back our opening date for our retail store.

Please share with your friends local to the MOV.

01/08/2019

We very much support KY's Ag Commissioner in communicating concerns to FaceBook.

Since when did FaceBook prohibit the sharing information of sustainable and benign crops? Actually for quite some time, as they've done the same thing to us in 2017.

Hopefully they retrofit their very dated protocol on h**p advertisements, and FaceBook can remain the free information sharing platform that many believe it still is.

***Giveaway Post***

We want to give a huge, h**py shout out to Commissioner Ryan Quarles of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture for sticking his neck out once again on behalf of the h**p industry!

Today, Commissioner Quarles sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, urging him to stop targeting h**p companies and removing their pages. In his letter he states that small farmers and businesses should be celebrated and encouraged, and not hassled by Facebook! We agree wholeheartedly!

In order to support his efforts to relieve h**p companies from the shackles of social media censorship, we decided to do another giveaway. Like and share this post far and wide to be entered to win a bottle of our 1000mg CBD Drops. We will announce the winner in 48 hours in the hopes that this letter will land on Mr Zuckerberg's desk repeatedly, over and over, until he decides to amend his policies to include legal and legitimate businesses.

If you are one of the many h**p companies that have contacted us for help in returning your page, please save a copy of this letter to share with your local media outlets, elected officials, friends and family. Let's put an end to the madness, and with your help, we WILL succeed!!

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