New Jersey Legislature Passes Hemp Bill

[CaseyJones]

http://www.thedailychronic.net/2014/27165/new-jersey-legislature-passes-hemp-bill/


Both chambers of the New Jersey legislature voted Monday to enact a bill establishing industrial hemp cultivation licenses in the state.

The bill, Senate Bill 3110, was approved unanimously in the Senate on Monday by a 37-0 vote, followed in the Assembly by a vote of 65-8. The bill now heads to the desk of Governor Chris Christie for final approval.

Under the bill, the Secretary of Agriculture can begin issuing licences for the legal cultivation of industrial hemp, but not until the United States government takes action to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act, unless the Drug Enforcement Administration grants New Jersey a permit allowing hemp cultivation in the state.

The bill provides specific application procedures and requirements, including fingerprinting and criminal background checks for industrial hemp license applicants.

[eduardo89]

How many states is that now? Kentucky, Washington (?), Colorado, New Hampshire (?), and now NJ?

[Root]

Why the fuck does anyone need a license to grow hemp?

[eduardo89]

Why the fuck does anyone need a license to grow hemp?

Because marijuana is evil.

[eduardo89]

Why the fuck does anyone need a license to grow hemp?

Oh and fixed that for you as well.

[Root]

Because marijuana is evil.
oh yeah I forgot


Oh and fixed that for you as well.
So true...

[Keith and stuff]

How many states is that now? Kentucky, Washington (?), Colorado, New Hampshire (?), and now NJ?

VT passed a similar bill years ago. Maybe ME too. Not sure but VT might have also passed an actually useful bill, like what happened in CO. The real deal passed the NH House last year but the Senate is somehow sitting on it. They claim to be afraid of the Feds... :(

Hopefully, if CO grows hemp another season or 2, these states that passed iffy bills will pass CO style legislation. Maybe this will be a big issue for the 2016 elections?

[navy-vet]

Because marijuana is evil.
It sends the wrong message about marijuana's value to the youth.
That was the feds stated position in regards to the legalization of industrial hemp.
Truth is revealed by following the money though....

[JK/SEA]

Washington and Colorado passed Cannibis Legislation, not Industrial Hemp...

[Seraphim]

Bill O'reilly told me this will be the end of America.

[JK/SEA]

Bill O'reilly told me this will be the end of America.

we need more cops.

Desmond...?...you qualified yet?

[CaseyJones]

Washington and Colorado passed Cannibis Legislation, not Industrial Hemp...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp#United_States


Some states have made the cultivation of industrial hemp legal, but these states — North Dakota, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Oregon, California, Montana, West Virginia and Vermont — have not yet begun to grow it because of resistance from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. In 2013, after the legalization of marijuana in the state, several farmers in Colorado planted and harvested several acres of hemp, bringing in the first hemp crop in the United States in over half a century.[79] Colorado,[80] Vermont, California, and North Dakota have passed laws enabling hemp licensure. All four states are waiting for permission to grow hemp from the DEA. Currently,[when?] North Dakota representatives are pursuing legal measures to force DEA approval.[81] Oregon has licensed industrial hemp as of August 2009.[82]

[navy-vet]

It sends the wrong message about marijuana's value to the youth.
That was the feds stated position in regards to the legalization of industrial hemp.
Truth is revealed by following the money trail.
Hemp competes heavily with the petro-chemical, plastics, textile, paper, pharmaceutical, and food industries. And what would happen to the DEA? Like the BATFE, where would all those agents be assigned to? Especially since no other department in the gov would have them, except maybe the TSA and their time is limited...
Can't have the songbirds coming back either with hemp seed growing all over the place...

[Keith and stuff]

Washington and Colorado passed Cannibis Legislation, not Industrial Hemp...

Are you saying the CO ballot question was better than the WA ballot question? :toady:

[eduardo89]

Washington and Colorado passed Cannibis Legislation, not Industrial Hemp...

From a website promoting Amendment 64 (which passed) in Colorado:


Colorado has the opportunity to create a legal and regulated hemp industry.

Amendment 64 not only regulates marijuana like alcohol, but also directs the general assembly to regulate the cultivation, processing, and sale of industrial hemp.

Colorado, like much of the U.S., has climate and soil conditions ideally suited to grow industrial hemp, and it was widely grown here for centuries.
A new hemp industry would strengthen Colorado’s economy.

The overall U.S. market for industrial hemp fiber and seed products is $400 million annually. Currently, zero percent of that money is going to American farmers, processors, or their families. Meanwhile, it is widely produced in Canada, China, and countries throughout Europe, among others.
Allowing the legal cultivation and processing of industrial hemp would provide the state with an infusion of new jobs and tax revenue in the near-term. It would also make it a leader in the development of a major new industry that will surely expand in coming years.

http://www.regulatemarijuana.org/hemp