A growing trend in the Sunflower State as the nation inches closer toward marijuana legalization . . . Check a plant from the cannabis family making just a bit of progress:
Kansas to Begin Accepting Applications to Grow Industrial Hemp
Friday, November 23rd, 2018, by Kansas News Service Kansas officials say they expect to begin accepting applications to grow industrial hemp as early as the end of January. For the Kansas News Service, Brian Grimmett reports.
As with their near beer, Kansas seems like a place that would only eventually legalize low potency cannabis.
ReplyDeleteThis is decades overdue. There is no need to mow down rainforests when we can use this. You would have to smoke a railcar of hemp to even think about catching a buzz.
ReplyDeleteHistorically a very important plant:
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A quick check of both Wikipedia and he Encyclopedia Brittanica websites indicted that...
ReplyDeleteSativa Indica (Marijuana) plants contain anywhere from 2% to 20%THC,
Sativa Sativa (Hemp) contains aprr. 0.3% of THC.
@10:14 was being conservative.
Kansas farmers could grow it, except there's no market to sell it here and no processing facilities in the state. Kansas farmers at best would have to truck it to Colorado, where the market price is very depressed from local hemp production or to the East coast where transportation costs would eat any profit made.
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