Hemp for Vermont Bill Becomes Law
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Type of Content: Article Vote Hemp, a grassroots advocacy organization working to give farmers the right to grow non-drug industrial hemp, is extremely pleased that Vermont Governor Jim Douglas allowed H.267, the Hemp for Vermont Bill, to become law without his signature yesterday afternoon. The bill overwhelmingly passed both the House (126 to 9) and the Senate (25 to 1). The new law sets up a state-regulated program for farmers to grow non-drug industrial hemp, which is used in a wide variety of products, including nutritious foods, cosmetics, body care, clothing, tree-free paper, auto parts, building materials and much more. Read »
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news.. That little chunk of land I have my eye on up there is looking even sweeter now. :)
Let us just hope that the DEA doesn't do what they are currently doing to the farmers in North Dakota...
http://www.mapinc.org/newsnorml/v08/n119/a10.html
Go Vermonters!
"Inexplicable humans...how can you combine so much baseness and so much greatness, so many virtues and so many crimes?" Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 'The World As it Is" circa 1748.
This country would work much better if we fired 90% of the bureaucrats. Hmmm. Make that 95%.
Oh my.
This is GREAT news!!
Thank you for posting, Trevor!
-Miss Green
"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it."
I'm not surprised to see that Miss Green made the first comment. This is wonderful news.
LOL!
I'll take that as a compliment. :)
-Miss Green
"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it."