By BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press | August 16, 2014 MURRAY, Ky. (AP) — Call it a homecoming for hemp: Marijuana’s non-intoxicating cousin is undergoing a rebirth in a state at the forefront of efforts to reclaim it as a mainstream crop. Researchers and farmers are producing the first legal hemp crop in …
Sometimes hemp boosters are really goddamn annoying, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a load of quite real and valuable potential in the celebrity crop-in-exile. While those boosters are highly adept at finding/resurrecting uses for the plant in just about every industrial and agricultural category imaginable, I think we can …
Logan Yonavjak (@Loganyon) makes a case for allowing farmers in the United States to grow hemp. Industrial hemp was once a dominant crop on the American landscape. This hardy and renewable resource (one of the earliest domesticated plants known, with roots dating back to the Neolothic Age in China) was …
From left: Dr. Erik Hunter, Senator Suzanne Williams, me (Lynda Parker), Mike Bowman, in hat a legislator who co-sponsored the bill, Lloyd Casey who introduced bills in ’95, ’96, and ’97, next Ron Carlton from Colorado Dept. of Ag, (woman on the right is unknown to me) – See more …
