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Eddie Velez, who is 44, legally grows hemp in North Texas and sells CBD products through his Dallas store, Oak Cliff Cultivators.Cannabis has always been part of my life. When I was growing up, my dad was a dealer. He was distributing marijuana, and that’s how we paid the bills. He got put into prison for all that type of stuff, and it kind of destroyed my family. My parents got divorced. My mom raised two boys in Oak Cliff, among all the gang activity going on. We lived on welfare for a little bit until she got back on her feet. She really kept it together, you know, during the time my dad was in prison.I graduated from high school and went into the…

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