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1 US IL: LTE: Harmful Hemp BillsThu, 02 Mar 2000
Source:Daily Herald (IL) Author:Lohrentz, Joyce Area:Illinois Lines:64 Added:03/02/2000

The Illinois Senate and House of Representatives have before them "industrial hemp" bills.

These bills have serious implications for increasing drug use. Hemp and marijuana are the same plant, cannabis sativa, which has the psychoactive ingredient, THC. It is being suggested that "industrial hemp" could be a vital, new crop for Illinois farmers.

Yet, according to a new USDA report, there is only a negligible market for hemp. "Given the average size of farms in the United States (about 500 acres), just a few farms could have supplied the hemp fiber and seed equivalent of 1999 import levels." "Industrial hemp" and marijuana look alike, and short of chemical analysis, there is no way to discriminate between the two. Today, people clear patches in the middle of corn fields and grow marijuana plants, hidden from passers-by. If hemp is allowed to be grown in Illinois, then certainly high levels of THC in cultivated marijuana plants will also be growing. The demands on law enforcement will be tremendous.

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