Sentences with phrase «domestic hemp industry»
Most likely does not support allowing U.S. farmers to grow hemp and the development of a domestic hemp industry.
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At a Capitol Hill lunch on June 23, 2005 marking the introduction of H.R. 3037, the «Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2005,» Congressional staffers were treated to a delicious gourmet hemp lunch while listening to various prominent speakers tout the myriad benefits of encouraging and supporting a domestic hemp industry.
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By being a hemp advocate or business person in the United States, to directly compete with domestic farmers is contradictory to the sustainable advocacy the entire industry has begun to adopt.
«I am convinced that allowing its production will be a positive development for Kentucky's farm families and economy,» said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, «The utilization of hemp to produce everything from clothing to paper is real, and if there is a capacity to center a new domestic industry in Kentucky that will create jobs in these difficult economic times, that sounds like a good thing to me.»
«The utilization of hemp to produce everything from clothing to paper is real,» said Sen. McConnell, «and if there is a capacity to center a new domestic industry in Kentucky that will create jobs in these difficult economic times, that sounds like a good thing to me.»