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McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« on: March 26, 2018, 05:00:00 pm »
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Senate's top leader said Monday he wants to bring hemp production back into the national mainstream by removing it from the list of controlled substances.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told a group of hemp advocates in his home state of Kentucky that he will introduce legislation to legalize the crop as an agricultural commodity. The versatile crop has been grown on an experimental basis in a number of states in recent years.

"It's now time to take the final step and make this a legal crop," McConnell said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mcconnell-wants-hemp-removed-controlled-substance-list-154706272.html
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Re: McConnell wants hemp removed from controlled substance list
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2018, 05:00:57 pm »
I don't have a problem with it per se, but McConnell has some weird priorities.
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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2018, 05:04:42 pm »
That stuff wouldn't get a fly high.   But you are correct.  Mitchiepoo is one messed up dude.
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Re: McConnell wants hemp removed from controlled substance list
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2018, 05:16:32 pm »
Quote from: edpc on March 26, 2018, 05:00:57 pm
I don't have a problem with it per se, but McConnell has some weird priorities.

Because of the ruination of the tobacco farming industry out here - McConnell wants to replace it with hemp farming.

More money stolen from other taxpayers in other states to fill his coffers and make 'Team Mitch' a permanent dynasty.
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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2018, 05:18:47 pm »
It sounds to me like a hemp lobbyist has gotten into McConnell's back pocket.
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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2018, 05:39:55 pm »
McConnell's got to know someone in the 'hemp' business and stands to profit is the only thing I can figure. He has already successfully attached language to broader legislation in the 2014 Farm Bill and annual spending packages, that protects state industrial hemp research programs from federal interference.

More than 30 states have 'industrial hemp' projects.  Florida is thinking of jumping on the bandwagon.  Right now they are researching  the risk of any hemp plants becoming invasive threats to Florida’s environment. I saw some humor in that one; as I couldn't help but wonder how from an aerial view you'd be able to tell the difference between marijuana and hemp?   :shrug:
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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2018, 05:41:42 pm »
Sessions won't allow it. He will never allow the devil's lettuce to be legal lest people start going to boogie woogie dance clubs and listening to that jazz music.



(and yea, I know it isn't the same as pot, just being funny)

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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2018, 05:46:20 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on March 26, 2018, 05:18:47 pm
It sounds to me like a hemp lobbyist has gotten into McConnell's back pocket.

LOL. I had to look that one up. I couldn't find any registered hemp lobbyists.

But a lobbyist working to reduce useless laws and regulations, I can get behind that. Usually they want to create more laws and regulations to force the market to their favor.
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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2018, 05:54:59 pm »
Quote from: AbaraXas on March 26, 2018, 05:46:20 pm
LOL. I had to look that one up. I couldn't find any registered hemp lobbyists.

But a lobbyist working to reduce useless laws and regulations, I can get behind that. Usually they want to create more laws and regulations to force the market to their favor.


Last year, Hemp On The Hill Lobby Day was on March 1st.  I couldn't find anything for 2018.  There may have been something, but you know how this stuff affects short term....

.....wait.  What was I saying?

https://www.hemptopia.com/blog/hemp-lobby-day-is-coming-up-on-march-1st-in-washington-dc/
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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2018, 06:08:01 pm »
Hemp was outlawed because it is virtually impossible to tell hemp from marijuana.
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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2018, 06:18:47 pm »
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Hemp was outlawed because it is virtually impossible to tell hemp from marijuana.

Till you smoke it.
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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2018, 06:56:15 pm »


Hemp as an Agricultural Commodity
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32725.pdf

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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2018, 06:58:27 pm »
Quote from: Restored on March 26, 2018, 06:08:01 pm
Hemp was outlawed because it is virtually impossible to tell hemp from marijuana.

I suspect their will be some hidden small Marijuana farms inside the larger industrial hemp farms for this reason.
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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2018, 07:12:06 pm »
I don't think so because it would cross-pollinate. But you could grow a patch and the feds would have no idea which one it was.
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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #14 on: March 26, 2018, 07:27:22 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on March 26, 2018, 06:18:47 pm
Till you smoke it.


Depends on who's smoking and how.  Blackbeard used it to terrify.


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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #15 on: March 26, 2018, 07:32:28 pm »
Quote from: edpc on March 26, 2018, 07:27:22 pm
Depends on who's smoking and how.  Blackbeard used it to terrify.

Until it "backfired" on him:

https://dnewell1.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/blackbeard-the-pirate-and-his-severe-burns/
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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #16 on: March 26, 2018, 07:34:16 pm »
Quote from: thackney on March 26, 2018, 07:32:28 pm
Until it "backfired" on him:

https://dnewell1.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/blackbeard-the-pirate-and-his-severe-burns/

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We was closin in on a ship off of the coast of South Carolina when Edward Teach saw that it was a merchant ship. As ye know, Blackbeard would light hemp that was woven into his beard to frighten the crew of the other ship. For lunch we had eaten some greasy meat, and Blackbeard had not cleaned his beard. When he lit the hemp on his beard, his entire head became a ball of fire. First-matey, Will Lawlor threw a bucketful of water at Teach, but the fire only roared back since it had turned into an all-out grease fire. The ship’s cook quickly ran down to the hull and brought back a sack of flour, ripped open the sack and threw it over top of Blackbeard. By that time we had pulled next to the merchant ship, Blackbeard threw off the flour sack, leapt aboard looking like a pirate ghost. The merchant ship surrendered immediately.
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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #17 on: March 26, 2018, 07:37:45 pm »
Quote from: thackney on March 26, 2018, 07:32:28 pm
Until it "backfired" on him:


Well, that will 'Teach' Edward.
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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #18 on: March 26, 2018, 09:07:12 pm »
McConnell colluding with dem plants....
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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #19 on: March 26, 2018, 10:43:46 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 26, 2018, 09:07:12 pm
McConnell colluding with dem plants....

Ah the old use a Dem Plant trick.   
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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #20 on: March 27, 2018, 04:27:03 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on March 26, 2018, 05:18:47 pm
It sounds to me like a hemp lobbyist has gotten into McConnell's back pocket.

One of many lobbyists that are in Turtles back pocket.
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Re: McConnell Wants Hemp Removed From Controlled Substance List
« Reply #21 on: March 27, 2018, 05:27:30 pm »
Quote from: txradioguy on March 27, 2018, 04:27:03 pm
One of many lobbyists that are in Turtles back pocket.


Turtles don't have pockets!  He stuffs his 1/2 shell with their bribe money
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