Passed on August 7, 2017, the new directive on hemp farming legislation asserts NCSL support for both federal and state regulations
for industrial hemp cultivation in the U.S., and is the result of several years of Vote Hemp's advocacy on the issue.
Sign Petition to Attorney General Eric Holder to remove industrial hemp from the Controlled Substance Act to all for
industrial hemp cultivation in Florida.
Bi-Partisan Congressional Leaders and Former CIA Director Testify in Favor of SB 50 Before Kentucky Senate Agriculture Committee Support for
Kentucky Industrial Hemp Cultivation Program Gains Momentum at State and Federal Levels and Includes Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
The affidavit erroneously claimed that the industrial hemp crop in question violated Wisconsin law, as the state of Wisconsin has not
legalized industrial hemp cultivation; however Wisconsin State law does not govern the Menominee Indian Reservation.
The United States is the only industrialized nation that
prohibits industrial hemp cultivation, and I believe that prohibition puts American farmers at a disadvantage and should be changed.
The AFBF position in favor of
decriminalizing industrial hemp cultivation is an auspicious boon to the hemp legalization movement, as currently the House version of the Farm Bill contains an amendment to legalize university research on industrial hemp in states that have removed barriers to the crop's production.
«This commonsense amendment will allow colleges and universities to grow and cultivate industrial hemp for academic and agricultural research purposes in states
where industrial hemp cultivation is already legal.
«We are very pleased the Congressional Research Service has issued this report and hope that members of Congress will conclude from the research that the U.S. is falling behind other developed nations
on industrial hemp cultivation and technology,» says Eric Steenstra, President of Vote Hemp.
Industrial hemp cultivation for research purposes is permitted by universities.
That latter school is also benefiting from marijuana in other ways: Thanks to $ 900,000 from the state's marijuana tax fund and $ 270,000 in county pot excise taxes to be used for «community enhancement,» CSU - Pueblo last year opened the Institute of Cannabis Research to study topics such as the impact of legalization on local economies,
industrial hemp cultivation, and the efficacy of cannabidiol.
Vote Hemp's goal is to relieve California farmers of the over-reaching prohibition on
industrial hemp cultivation and reintroduce the crop to the state.