Thomas Massie speaks in support of hemp amendment 6/2/15

[tsai3904]

Video:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4539928/rep-massie-hemp-amendment

Massie speaking in support of the following hemp amendment to H.R. 2578, the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016:

AMENDMENT NO. 9: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following:

Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used to prevent a State from implementing its own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of industrial hemp, as defined in section 7606 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-79).

The amendment passed overwhelmingly 282-146:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll280.xml

 

[Tinnuhana]

Maybe now Japan is working to get the US government out of its 8000 year old hemp history:

http://okinawa.stripes.com/news/reefer-gladness