Pubdate: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 Source: Denver Post (CO) Copyright: 1999 The Denver Post Contact: 1560 Broadway, Denver, CO 80202 Fax: (303) 820.1502 Website: http://www.denverpost.com/ Forum: http://www.denverpost.com/voice/voice.htm HEMP INITIATIVE STALLS Backers of a ballot initiative to legalize industrial hemp have decided to shelve their proposal for this year. According to a news release from Colorado Hemp, backers don't want to have the industrialhemp measure on the same ballot as a measure to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes. The medicinal marijuana proposal was placed on the 2000 ballot after it was determined that the former Secretary of State Vikki Buckley had incorrectly kept it off the 1998 ballot. The language of the industrial-hemp proposal had distinguished hemp from marijuana by the content of THC, the chemical component that makes people "high" when they smoke marijuana. - --- MAP posted-by: Derek Rea