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Pubdate: Fri, 24 Aug 2012
Source: Courier-Journal, The (Louisville, KY)
Copyright: 2012 The Courier-Journal
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Website: http://www.courier-journal.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/97
Author: Gregory A. Hall
INDUSTRIAL HEMP DEBATE REACHES STATE FAIR AS RAND PAUL, JAMES COMER
PUSH FOR LEGALIZATION
The effort to legalize industrial hemp reached the Kentucky State
Fair on Thursday as U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and state Agriculture
Commissioner James Comer promoted their efforts to eliminate federal
restrictions that amount to a ban on growing the plant.
Comer said he will restart the Kentucky Hemp Commission to advocate
the elimination of the federal restrictions. Paul, R-Ky., is a
co-sponsor of a bill in the Senate that would take industrial hemp
out of the control of the Drug Enforcement Administration so it could
be treated like other agricultural crops. Comer also said he hopes
for a similar bill to be filed in the Kentucky General Assembly to
deal with the issue.
Federal government regulations control - and effectively prohibit -
production of the non-hallucinogenic plant that can be used to make
products including twine, paper and clothing.
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