singular_me
27th January 2016, 01:05 PM
if one wishes to compete for freedom that is what one gets: prohibition (freedom is bad), then decades of battle to get it back. A small victory though.
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january 26
http://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/virginia_hemp_farming_bill.png
Today, the Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill to authorize the farming, and production of industrial hemp in the state for commercial purposes, setting the foundation to nullify in practice the unconstitutional federal prohibition on the same. The vote was 98-0.
Introduced by Del. Brenda Pogge (R-Norge), House Bill 699 (HB699) would amend current state law on hemp by removing a provision that authorized the licensing of hemp farming only upon approval of the federal government.
As noted in the impact statement from the Department of Planning and Budget, the bill would also require the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to “adopt regulations as necessary to license persons to grow and process industrial hemp for any purpose.”’
In short, this would cut the federal government completely out of the state’s hemp policy, as it should be,” said Mike Maharrey of the Tenth Amendment Center. “This is exactly what is already happening in Vermont, Colorado, and other states.”
FEDERAL FARM BILL
Early in 2014, President Barack Obama signed a new farm bill into law, which included a provision allowing a handful of states to begin limited research programs growing hemp. The “hemp amendment”.............
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/01/virginia-house-votes-unanimously-to-legalize-hemp-farming-nullifying-federal-law.html
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january 26
http://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/virginia_hemp_farming_bill.png
Today, the Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill to authorize the farming, and production of industrial hemp in the state for commercial purposes, setting the foundation to nullify in practice the unconstitutional federal prohibition on the same. The vote was 98-0.
Introduced by Del. Brenda Pogge (R-Norge), House Bill 699 (HB699) would amend current state law on hemp by removing a provision that authorized the licensing of hemp farming only upon approval of the federal government.
As noted in the impact statement from the Department of Planning and Budget, the bill would also require the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to “adopt regulations as necessary to license persons to grow and process industrial hemp for any purpose.”’
In short, this would cut the federal government completely out of the state’s hemp policy, as it should be,” said Mike Maharrey of the Tenth Amendment Center. “This is exactly what is already happening in Vermont, Colorado, and other states.”
FEDERAL FARM BILL
Early in 2014, President Barack Obama signed a new farm bill into law, which included a provision allowing a handful of states to begin limited research programs growing hemp. The “hemp amendment”.............
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/01/virginia-house-votes-unanimously-to-legalize-hemp-farming-nullifying-federal-law.html