CaseyJones
06-27-2013, 07:08 PM
http://grist.org/politics/legal-hemp-could-rise-high-like-a-phoenix-from-farm-bill-ashes/
The farm bill died last week, and we’re still sorting out some of our feelings about it.
Between hefty cuts for food stamps and maintaining the status quo on big ag subsidies, that farm bill was kind of a jerk! But the bill also included a late amendment that would’ve helped pave the way for an industrial hemp industry in the U.S. The amendment passed by a vote of 225-200 in the House — but then, of course, the whole bill was scrapped, because the farm bill brought a knife to the gun fight that is Congress.
In its wake, there may not be a ton of bipartisan optimism for a new farm bill — but bipartisan hemp supporters are still seeing green, as in go, grow, and cash-money.
The farm bill died last week, and we’re still sorting out some of our feelings about it.
Between hefty cuts for food stamps and maintaining the status quo on big ag subsidies, that farm bill was kind of a jerk! But the bill also included a late amendment that would’ve helped pave the way for an industrial hemp industry in the U.S. The amendment passed by a vote of 225-200 in the House — but then, of course, the whole bill was scrapped, because the farm bill brought a knife to the gun fight that is Congress.
In its wake, there may not be a ton of bipartisan optimism for a new farm bill — but bipartisan hemp supporters are still seeing green, as in go, grow, and cash-money.