Legalization of Industrial Hemp

[Tom Trail <ttrail@moscow.com>]

Visionaires:

   I've tried with little success to introduce legislation in the Idaho
Legislature to legalize
industrial hemp as an agricultural crop.   Industrial hemp would make an
excellent alternative
crop for Idaho farmers and it is environmentally friendly.   Law
enforcement officials oppose
the legalization for a number of reasons.   To get a glow a person would
have to make a cigar the
size of a telephone pole.   Several states have passed legislation to
legalize industrial hemp
but the major constraint is that national policy would have to be changed
to allow it.

  Many farmer's groups and other organizations have been conducting a
partallel effort to get a bill passed in Congress.  The goal is to get
Congress to define industrial as low THc cannabis (0l3 or less THC) and
allow U.S. farmers to gorw it under a USDA regulated system similar to the
one now
in place in Canada.

  Senator Kent Conrad from north Dakota has drafted a bill that would
accomplish this goal.  He is
considering introducing the bill as an amendment to the Agricultural
Appropriations Bill which will
be taken up in early July.

Rep. Tom Trail/Dist. 5

Dr. Tom Trail
International Trails
1375 Mt. View Rd.
Moscow, Id. 83843
Tel:  (208) 882-6077
Fax:  (208) 882-0896
e mail ttrail@moscow.com