Nothing! Kentucky back in the day was the biggest producer of Hemp in the US in fact we grew Hemp for the War effort in WWII. Now we face a time when tobacco is all but gone, cattle are destroying our farm lands and hurting the environment more than they are helping. Right now Kentucky should turn back the clock and embrace our rich history of Hemp production. In fact we have a law passed in 2001 that will study hemp and its benefits. We passed that 9 years ago, but the DEA won’t let us test or run the study!
Today there is a bill in the US house that will allow for farming of Hemp and take Hemp off the DEAs radar. It only makes sense because Hemp is not Marijuana; it’s a different plant all together. Yet we have our own legislators that will try and block this bill, yes Kentucky legislators in the congress are going to vote NO on the Industrial Hemp bill!
Mr. McConnell Himself said that Hemp would cause Criminal issues and make life hard on Police. He hasn’t a clue; he thinks hemp is a drug and that it will spark problems. Our house legislators are saying the same too; they were going to vote this bill down! Everyone in Kentucky and the country should be upset at this, science Hemp could be the one way we drop our oil dependence and move into the future with Green Clean jobs and products.
Hemp is used for over 5000 uses, everything from Paper to rope and cloths to Fuel and textiles to Bio chemicals. We could make paper at a cheaper and greener way, I acre of hemp can make 5 times the paper as the same space in trees. Fuel from hemp could be used in all cars and trucks and once again Hemp produces 10 times more fuel than Corn! Food can be made from the pulp; a soy type product it could help feed the starving world. To make a shirt out of cotton you need a bunch of time and chemicals to so, Hemp on the other hand would have it done in 1/4th of the time and wouldn’t need the chemicals to produce anything!
So here we are back to the start, Kentucky and all the states grew hemp for centuries, we built this country using hemp and Washington himself said all citizens should help America grow by growing hemp. During War we put aside our Prohibition to grow Hemp and it turned out to save the war effort and didn’t produce any side effects other than more jobs and cleaner textiles. We have to return to our roots and look at the history that we have forgotten. We have to look at the facts and the facts are we cannot keep draining this planet off her resources forever and at some point in the near future, sooner than later we will need to make a choice weather to continue down a destructive dead end road, with oil and trees and coal or take a new approach with Hemp?
Kentucky is the one state that could gain so much from a booming Hemp industry and yet our own Senators and Congressman are going to take that away for us. They are there to do what we want, what we feel is best, but this time they are siding with big oil and big paper and corn lobbies trying to keep their inferior product on top. It wrong and we all know it, you all best get out your phones and start calling, because if we don’t act and act now we will be passing up Putting every farm and farmer back to work, passing on new textile jobs and factories coming to the state, and all the clean green jobs it would create.
I say Yes on Hemp, I say yes to Jobs and Fuel and Safe textiles. I say yes to saving our state and propelling it into the future! But we have to make a stand and write letters and make calls, too all representatives of Kentucky and demand they vote Yes on the Industrial Hemp Bill.
Think of all the kids that will need jobs that will have to leave the state due to no jobs then look at Hemp and tell me we don’t need to rethink our hemp laws!
End prohibition, Hemp and Cannabis alike are harmless and could produce much needed revenue and take us into the future of progress and prosperity!
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