Ashley Walsh, founder of Pocono Organics farm, holds hemp buds at the farm adjacent to Pocono Raceway, Friday, June 25, 2021, in Long Pond, Pa. The 380 acre farm is the title sponsor for Saturday’s NASCAR auto race, The Pocono Organics CBD 325, the first Cup race with a CBD sponsorship.
Ashley Walsh, founder of Pocono Organics farm, holds a hemp plant used for research at the farm adjacent to Pocono Raceway, Friday, June 25, 2021, in Long Pond, Pa. The 380 acre farm is the title sponsor for Saturday’s NASCAR auto race, The Pocono Organics CBD 325, the first Cup race with a CBD sponsorship.
Ashley Walsh, founder of Pocono Organics farm, holds hemp buds used for research at the farm adjacent to Pocono Raceway, Friday, June 25, 2021, in Long Pond, Pa. The 380 acre farm is the title sponsor for Saturday’s NASCAR auto race, The Pocono Organics CBD 325, the first Cup race with a CBD sponsorship.
Hemp plants being used for research are seen at Pocono Organics farm adjacent to Pocono Raceway, Friday, June 25, 2021, in Long Pond, Pa. The 380 acre farm is the title sponsor for Saturday’s NASCAR auto race, The Pocono Organics CBD 325, the first Cup race with a CBD sponsorship.
Ashley Walsh, founder of Pocono Organics farm, arranges CBD products for sale at the farm adjacent to Pocono Raceway, Friday, June 25, 2021, in Long Pond, Pa. The 380 acre farm is the title sponsor for Saturday’s NASCAR auto race, The Pocono Organics CBD 325, the first Cup race with a CBD sponsorship.
CBD products are seen for sale at Pocono Organics farm adjacent to Pocono Raceway, Friday, June 25, 2021, in Long Pond, Pa. The 380 acre farm is the title sponsor for Saturday’s NASCAR auto race, The Pocono Organics CBD 325, the first Cup race with a CBD sponsorship.
Ashley Walsh, founder of Pocono Organics farm, checks on a pepper plant at the farm adjacent to Pocono Raceway, Friday, June 25, 2021, in Long Pond, Pa. The 380 acre farm is the title sponsor for Saturday’s NASCAR auto race, The Pocono Organics CBD 325, the first Cup race with a CBD sponsorship.
LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Let’s nip this in the bud: No, Pocono never considered asking for 95 more miles added to the length of Saturday’s NASCAR Cup race so the first CBD-sponsored event could be called the Pocono Organics 420.
On the farm and the track, the Pocono Organics CBD 325 fits just fine.
“Yeah, you should have heard some of the suggestions,” Pocono CEO Nick Igdalsky said, laughing. “Our fans had some fun.”
Just wait until one of the cars goes up in smoke.
OK, the punchlines flow at Pocono Raceway but the hemp market, specifically CBD, or cannabidiol, is serious business to the track that will run the first NASCAR Cup Series race Saturday with CBD as the title sponsor.
Yes, Igdalsky had hemp flower on hand during a Friday tour at Pocono Organics, one of the largest regenerative organic certified farms in North America, but inside the 35-foot-tall greenhouses were rows and rows of cherry tomatoes, eggplants, pepper and assorted fruits and vegetables.
“While we do grow hemp, and have our own CBD line,” track President Ben May said, “you name it, we grow it.”
There is a 380-acre farm on track property — the spires that highlight the 2 1/2-mile track rise in the distance across the road from the market picnic tables — and roughly 40,000 feet of greenhouse space.
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