Industrial Hemp Decision Near in North. Dakota

The court case pitting two respected North Dakota farmers against the U.S. Government’s DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) could resolve important questions about legalizing U.S. industrial hemp production as early as this week. The initial ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Dan Hovland will be on DEA’s motion to dismiss the farmers’ efforts to obtain DEA permission to plant industrial hemp next spring. DEA’s case appears to rest on the DEA contention that there is no distinction between marijuana and its distant cousin industrial hemp. If the judge rules that the two plants are in fact dissimilar, since industrial hemp is clearly non-psychoactive, legalization efforts would score a major victory. For full details of the court case, Click Here.
For a video of a press conference with the farmers and further background, Click Here.