Last week, Maine's Senate passed LD 1159 on a vote of 25-10. The bill would establish a licensing regime for farming industrial hemp. The State of Oregon is also on the verge of passing industrial hemp legislation. If the bills succeed, these states would join fifteen others that have passed hemp bills.
There's no doubt, it's our federalist system that is enabling this long stigmatized agricultural crop to rise from the ashes.
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