the Industrial Hemp Farming Act

Hemp plants are growing in American soil again.  Hemp is a variety of cannabis, a cousin of marijuana, but contains o.3% or less of the psychoactive component THC - so the only thing you'll get if you smoke it is a headache.  Farmers don't have carte blanche yet for wholesale industrial planting, but odds are that it's not too far in the distance.  The recent Farm Bill removes hemp from the Controlled Substances Act and allows research to grow for seed. There's dollars in them thar hills!  Canada is reaping in a neat $1 billion in hemp to feed the market [...]

Hemp plants are growing in American soil again.  Hemp is a variety of cannabis, a cousin of marijuana, but contains o.3% or less of the psychoactive component THC - so the only thing you'll get if you smoke it is a headache.  Farmers don't have carte blanche yet for wholesale industrial planting, but odds are that it's not too far in the distance.  The recent Farm Bill removes hemp from the Controlled Substances Act and allows research to grow for seed. There's dollars in them thar hills!  Canada is reaping in a neat $1 billion in hemp to feed the market [...]