Cornbread Hemp

Cornbread Hemp is a family-owned company based in Louisville, Kentucky. It was co-founded in 2018 by former cannabis journalist and book author Jim Higdon and his cousin Eric Zipperle, who has an MBA with an e-commerce background. Higdon is the author of the nonfiction book, The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History. As a journalist, he covered cannabis politics for POLITICO and Kentucky news for the Washington Post. Higdon and Zipperle created Cornbread Hemp in late 2018 and began shipping their first products in April 2019, quickly becoming the top CBD brand from Kentucky. By the end of 2019, Cornbread Hemp had become one of a select few brands to offer USDA certified organic CBD products. To ensure safety, Cornbread Hemp tests all of its products at Kaycha Labs, the only lab in Kentucky with DEA registration and ISO certification.