I was just asked by a friend in Canada about what the hemp movement is doing in the US. Lots of stories about medical marijuana, and that is going state-by-state - about 16 states now have legal cannabis for patients, with varying degrees in the quality of the administration. In 2012 Mina Hegaard - www.minawear.com - started a petition to the White House to make industrial hemp legal again, and soon afterwards the feds did just that, but allowing the states to set their own agenda. So far only two states have made it legal, Colorado and Kentucky. And while a crop of 60 acres was sown in Colorado, in advance of it being legal, and in what may have been the catalyst for the lifting of the ban, there has been little mention of its cultivation elsewhere in the US.
Ironically, not 10 seconds after I replied to the Canute, I saw the following:
Locust Grove, the 18th century home of the sister and brother-in-law of George Rogers Clark and William Clark, is growing industrial hemp.
The seeds were planted last week at the site by its gardener, Sarah Sutherland. Locust Grove says the crop was grown by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
Locust Grove is participating in the hemp pilot program administered by the Kentucky Agriculture Department and plans a Hemp Festival on Aug. 9.
The festival will feature a Hemp Village, where products may be purchased, a Hemp Cafe with foods made from hemp oil and seeds, rope and paper-making demonstrations and a question-and-answer session with experts about the future of hemp in Kentucky. A World War II-era documentary, "Hemp for Victory," and a new film, "Bringing It Home," will be shown.
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Monday, June 15, 2015
Monday, April 15, 2013
Medical marijuana bill in New Hampshire
CONCORD, N.H. -
For the fourth time in the past six years, the New Hampshire Legislature is considering legalizing medical marijuana.
The Senate holds a hearing Thursday on a bill that would give people with serious illnesses or chronic pain access to the drug. It recently passed the House with a veto-proof majority.
Senate leadership says the bill will see significant changes, but is likely to pass.
The Senate is also hearing testimony Thursday on a bill that would protect industrial hemp from be labeled an illicit drug. The House has already passed that bill
For the fourth time in the past six years, the New Hampshire Legislature is considering legalizing medical marijuana.
The Senate holds a hearing Thursday on a bill that would give people with serious illnesses or chronic pain access to the drug. It recently passed the House with a veto-proof majority.
Senate leadership says the bill will see significant changes, but is likely to pass.
The Senate is also hearing testimony Thursday on a bill that would protect industrial hemp from be labeled an illicit drug. The House has already passed that bill
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