Four States Make Case for Industrially Grown Hemp
This past Friday, North Dakota, Massachusetts, West Virginia, and Wisconsin presented the Drug Enforcement Agency with an argument for the allowance of industrially cultivated hemp. North Dakota's argicultural commissioner met with DEA officials for advice and assistance in carrying out the complicated task of legalizing industrial hemp production in accordance with state laws passed from 1999 through 2005. Industrially grown hemp would contain only trace amounts of the psychoactive ingredient present in marijuana, and can be used in the production of textiles, dyes, ropes, paper, and much more. The United States is the only industrialized nation to still have a ban on industrialized hemp production.