Pubdate: Sat, 14 Feb 2015
Source: Albuquerque Journal (NM)
Copyright: 2015 Albuquerque Journal
Contact:  http://www.abqjournal.com/
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SENATE PANEL OKS INDUSTRIAL HEMP

A bill to allow New Mexico farmers to grow an industrial version of 
marijuana's nonintoxicating cousin has passed a Senate panel.

The Senate Conservation Committee voted unanimously this week to send 
the Industrial Hemp Farming Act to the Senate Judicial Committee 
without a recommendation.

Sen. Cisco McSorley, an Albuquerque Democrat, recently filed the 
legislation, Senate Bill 94, aimed at legalizing the selling of hemp 
and licensing of farmers to grow the crop.
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