Rand Paul: I am lobbying to include hemp legalization in farm bill this year

[jct74]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjQAp9DgC9w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjQAp9DgC9w

[tsai3904]

It didn't go so well in committee but they're going to try to push for it when the bill goes before the full Senate.


A new five-year farm bill quickly cleared the Senate Agriculture Committee Tuesday, despite regional sparring between Midwest and Southern Republicans over revisions in the commodity title to win support from peanut and rice producers.

The action came as Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) failed in a behind-the-scenes effort to convince the committee leadership to include his legislation to legalize the cultivation of industrial hemp — a priority for farm interests back home in Kentucky.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told POLITICO that he and McConnell are still pressing Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) — a member of the Agriculture panel — to support their efforts when the giant bill gets to the floor.


http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/farm-bill-clears-senate-agriculture-committee-91341.html

[jct74]

It didn't go so well in committee but they're going to try to push for it when the bill goes before the full Senate.



http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/farm-bill-clears-senate-agriculture-committee-91341.html

thanks for the info

[fr33]

The majority of the big AG lobby will not want hemp legalized unless it has the same subsidies attached to it that other crops have.