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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGreat news everyone!
This really is great news.
So many things can be made from hemp! And it's not a soil, water or fertilizer hog. So many people could be employed in this industry! I am so surprised...but pleasantly so!
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/12/18136408/congress-hemp-marijuana-legalization-farm-bill
McConnell (R-KY), along with Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Ron Wyden (D-OR), introduced the bill earlier this year. It was wrapped into the broader farm bill, which mostly deals with agriculture subsidies and food assistance programs, and passed with that legislation. President Donald Trump is expected to sign the bill into law.
For McConnell, the hope is to make hemp a new source of jobs for his home state: He said earlier this year that he hopes hemp can become sometime in the future what tobacco was in Kentuckys past. As Don Sergent reported for Kentucky news outlets, some farmers in the state are similarly hoping that hemp can make up for the losses theyre now seeing in tobacco as the nation has realized the health risks posed by cigarettes.
For McConnell, the hope is to make hemp a new source of jobs for his home state: He said earlier this year that he hopes hemp can become sometime in the future what tobacco was in Kentuckys past. As Don Sergent reported for Kentucky news outlets, some farmers in the state are similarly hoping that hemp can make up for the losses theyre now seeing in tobacco as the nation has realized the health risks posed by cigarettes.
-JB
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Great news everyone! (Original Post)
Joanie Baloney
Dec 2018
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CountAllVotes
(20,854 posts)1. Wow! Great news indeed!
Where do we sign up to invest?
Finally, the prohibition is ending after 80 years
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)2. Like someone pointed out.
If Mitch is behind it, the big money to profit from it is already lined up.
Rand Paul and the other two were likely just opposed to the prohibition to start.
RainCaster
(10,691 posts)3. BFD - I thought you were going to post a pic of DFT in chains being walked out of the White House
It's a nice idea, but our country is still so fu~^ed because of the GOP.
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)4. .
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Joanie Baloney
(1,357 posts)5. Exactly!