VT House OKs Hemp for State's Farmers


	VT House OKs Hemp for State's Farmers

ZachReynolds

2-11-2008 2:43 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/59f7ad10-1dd0-4d10-bb47-ccf9d7b78887/4F2AA8EA-4033-4F0C-9477-6700985EF387/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wptz.com/news/15256657/detail.html" href="http://www.wptz.com/news/15256657/detail.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wptz.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wptz.com/news/15256657/detail.html">VT House OKs Hemp for State's Farmers</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wptz.com/news/15256657/detail.html">The Vermont House of Representatives gave overwhelming final approval Friday to a bill which sets up procedures for farmers to begin growing hemp. Its provisions, however, hinge on a policy reversal from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which has banned domestic hemp production since World War Two.<P></P>Hemp is a biological cousin to marijuana, though it contains only trace amounts of the chemical THC responsible for marijuana's psychoactive effect. Hemp was widely harvested into the 1940s, and the U.S. government encouraged its cultivation.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wptz.com/news/15256657/detail.html">The plant is used to make textiles, fuel and food. Hemp seed oil is found in a range of cosmetics manufactured outside the U.S.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wptz.com/news/15256657/detail.html">North Dakota has also passed hemp legislation and is asking the Bush administration to change its position on cultivation. Farmers there have called it a matter of agricultural economics.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4F2AA8EA-4033-4F0C-9477-6700985EF387/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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