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Bismarck Tribune - North Dakota News - North Dakota farmers apply again for hemp licenses (http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2008/02/01/news/state/147814.txt - broken link)
One would think that even government agencies would be able to distinguish illegal drugs from industrial organic fibers, wouldn't one?
[SIZE=-1]Bureaucrat toadies only distinguish what forms there are to fill out.
North Dakota has distinguished but the Fed - the DEA has an agenda.
I have thought that law enforcement - attorney generals office, DEA etc seems to think itself a forth branch of government and is often treated as such.
Where has states rights gone in the issue anyway? It has been long since I have even heard the justification for the Fed regulating what should be a states right for sake of the "interstate commerce" thing and that something grown or possessed in one state might be shipped to another state.
DEA tried to stop hemp seed from being imported to US from Canada some years ago. Seized loads at the border and messed up some folks business before courts got around to enforcing that there was special exemption in the law for sake of seed(sterile) and fiber and such derivatives.
It is already legal to ship seed and fiver and oil and such to import and from state to state but it just cannot be grown for sake of the government can regulate interstate commerce. I suppose someone good at legalese could phrase all that so it would seem to make some sense to someone.
Anyway - I suppose the resemblance is of issue to someone but that is smokescreen that obscures the whole issue. Pharmaceutical, wood pulp, cotton, textile and such industries invest much in lobbying and purchase of lawmakers to keep such competition off the market.
I think that it was Clintons drug czar who declared that hemp could not be a profitable crop and it was right after that the shipments of seed was seized at the border. It seemed obvious that they wanted to prove the point by trying to ruin it for Canada since US is only market they really have that would make it pay for them. [/SIZE]
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Interesting article on industrial hemp growth...
