Farm bill would allow hemp cultivation in some states

[CaseyJones]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/01/29/hemp-cultivation/5039263/

Farm legislation breezing through Congress could make northern Colorado the nation's leader in the cultivation, study and use of industrial hemp.

The farm bill provision authored by Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., and Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., would allow colleges, universities and state agriculture agencies to grow and do research on the crop without being penalized by the federal government.

The provision applies only to states where industrial hemp is legal, Polis said Wednesday after the House approved the five-year, $500 billion farm bill by a vote of 251-166.

Industrial hemp cultivation is legal in Colorado, Oregon, California, Kentucky, Vermont, Montana, West Virginia, North Dakota and Maine, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

would allow colleges, universities and state agriculture agencies to grow and do research on the crop without being penalized by the federal government.

Still no commercial crops?

 

[Origanalist]

Still no commercial crops?

That is disappointing.

 

[jkr]

i guess everyone else can build the tyrants bricks w/o straw...

incremental
change
wont
work

theyll allow tests, set them up to fail, then repeal it...4 tha childrenz...the childrenz they are locking in cages

STOP HOLDING BACK THE PEOPLE YOU SERVE!

 

[Travlyr]

Growing or using it is illegal under federal law. The farm bill provision wouldn't overturn that prohibition, but would block federal authorities from cracking down on hemp farmers, researchers and higher-education institutions in areas where the crop is legal, Polis said.

Unenforceable Law?

 

[osan]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/01/29/hemp-cultivation/5039263/

WV? really?

I will have to look into this.