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Plan To Study Hemp As A Cash Crop In Illinois Ignites Controversy
Is it rope or dope? That’s the question at the heart of a smoldering debate over a proposal in Illinois to explore growing industrial hemp as a legitimate cash crop. The controversy, which has already brought a threatening letter from the White House drug policy director, has state lawmakers growling at each other.
Anti-drug activists blast hemp-study bill
Anti-drug activists are hoping to put the brakes on legislation that would authorize two Illinois universities to conduct research on the production of industrial hemp, a biological relative of marijuana.
Follow-up letter to Agri-Talk
I believe hemp presents us with the means-and therefore the duty- to forge a renewed sense of Freedom and Liberty in this country. I also believe it is precisely times like these that our Constitution is designed to get us through. I think you are more aware of the hemp issue now then before but I’d like, if you’ll permit me, the chance to take you to the next level in terms of what I think this issue is really about.
Let “cash crop” refer to hemp grown as a versatile alternative
I enjoyed reading the hemp news stories carried in Saturday, Aug. 26, issue of The Herald-Whig. Ann Pierceall took us up as the Western Illinois Force made two “drug busts” as part of Operation Cash Crop. But, I am saddened by the fact that what is now being raised as a viable farm crop in other countries, we are destroying because of its relationship with marijuana.
There is a great paradox about Cannabis sativa
There is a great paradox about Cannabis sativa and the dramatic pictures in Sunday’s Herald Whig of the police destroying large patches of “wild marijuana” reveal, unwittingly, a portion of it.
Hemp bad for marijuana growers, good for farmers
At a recent Heart of Illinois Sierra Club meeting, I asked the following question to both District 18 Rep. Ray LaHood and candidate Joyce Harant: “The State of Illinois has adopted resolution HR553, urging the U.S. Congress to acknowledge the difference between marijuana and industrial hemp, and to clearly authorize the commercial production of industrial hemp. What is your position on HR553?”
Colleges may study hemp’s pros
Is industrial hemp a way to boost the fortunes of Illinois’ struggling farmers or a tool for encouraging drug abuse? That’s something state lawmakers may have to decide for themselves this fall when they return to the Capitol. Some lawmakers have been pushing a proposal to allow the University of Illinois and Southern Illinois University to conduct research on hemp production. The legislation, Senate Bill 1397, won easy Senate approval last spring and is pending in the House of Representatives.
Cash Crop: Plane search often helps officers track down marijuana plants
The flight is part of the Illinois State Police program Operation Cash Crop. The program pays for law enforcement officers, like those in the West Central Illinois Task Force, to find and destroy marijuana crops — both wild and cultivated.
Cash Crop: Agents burn marijuana crop in Adams County worth $400,000
Just over a week ago Illinois Department of Conservation officers and West Central Illinois Task Force agents found $400,000 worth of cultivated marijuana. The 500 or so plants were being grown on an island in the middle of the Mississippi River just north of Adams County. Once officers found the patch, they cut the crop and burned it.