“I wanted to educate the public on what hemp is about. Everybody thinks that hemp is marijuana.”

Imagine being surrounded by so much hemp you get lost in it.

It sounds like a stoner’s paradise, until you realize hemp isn’t the same as cannabis.

The farm at Leatherberry Acres includes a four-acre hemp maze where guests can navigate through the path, passing educational posts along the way.

“I wanted to educate the public on what hemp is about. Everybody thinks that hemp is marijuana,” owner Tyler Leatherberry told Baraboo News Republic.

“It’s in the same family, but the THC is bred out, but people don’t know that. They all think we are growing pot.”

An aerial view of our four mazes. One more to cut! Posted by Leatherberry Acres on Monday, September 2, 2019

Unlike cannabis plants, hemp and CBD plants produce oil and lack the same levels of THC that produces the high.

Kara Lee Leatherberry told Baraboo News Republic that the public wasn’t a fan of the maze at first, but that changed when they took a walk through.

“I think 95 percent of the response has been positive,” Leatherberry said. “Which is really encouraging.”

The Leatherberrys will harvest the maze and use a processor to create eco-friendly materials like hemp plastic and biodegradable straws.

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