Hemp: Another small step towards Legalization
A new bill supporting industrial hemp production in Minnesota has been introduced to House committees.
The bill, authorized by Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis, has already been given the thumbs up by the House Public Safety and Civil Justice. They voted 7-6 in favor of keeping the bill moving.
Unfortunately, Bob Bushman of the Minneasota Peace/Police Officers Association, isn’t so keen on the idea. He thinks that, legalizing industrial hemp will open the doors to all sorts of drugs being legalized. He’s also concerned that the laboratories that test drugs that have been seized by police, will become over-burdened.
Personally, I doubt that it will open the doors to the legalization of drugs. I mean, what the bill intends to do is make a clear distinction in the law between industrial hemp and drugs. And that’s all that is needed. The reason the law needs to have a clear distinction is because there is a clear distinction between industrial hemp and drugs.
Furthermore, unless drugs share the enormous benefits to the environment that industrial hemp does, it’s unlikely that we’ll see those being legalized any time soon.
As far as the burden on the drug labs goes, I don’t think the burden will be that great. Anyone with a trained eye can tell the difference between industrial hemp and marijuana.
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