Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul Join Forces to Legalize Hemp
” Though manufacturing hemp is currently just as illegal as growing smokable pot, 10 states already have frameworks in place for industrial hemp production. The problem is that the Drug Enforcement Administration classifies all forms of hemp as a controlled substance, despite the fact that industrial hemp generally contains less than 0.3 percent THC, or anywhere between 1/6 to 1/66 the amount you’ll find in marijuana. If you tried smoking hemp, you’d exhaust yourself before you got high.
Federal regulations do not differentiate between marijuana and its non-psychoactive cousin, which is used in the production of many useful items, including clothing, rope, biofuel, construction materials, and pulp for paper products. According to David West of the North American Industrial Hemp Council, more hemp products are exported to the United States from places like China and Canada than any other nation on earth.”
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- Hemp Bill Clears House, Heads to Senate (hawaiireporter.com)
- New Hemp Bills Introduced in California (eastbayexpress.com)
- The Federal War on Hemp (fff.org)
- Hemp fever? Senate approves hemp farming, Beshear unconvinced (whas11.com)
- Kentucky Lawmakers Push to Legalize Industrial Hemp (theepochtimes.com)
- Matthew Hurtt on Legalizing Domestic Hemp (reason.com)
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