Herer’s underground bestseller argued that ending hemp’s misguided prohibition, and allowing a commercial crop to flourish once again, would yield incredible benefits, including but not limited to feeding the world, freeing us from fossil fuels,reversing climate change,replacing plastics, ending the housing crisis, and restoring our planet’s depleted soils.
“I don’t know if hemp is going to save the world,” Herer once famously opined, “but it’s the only thing that can.”
The man who came to be known as The Hemperor passed away in 2010, but his legacy lives on in an unlikely place—an amendment to the 2018 Farm Bill, added by US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, that removes industrial hemp from regulation under the Controlled Substances Act, making it a legal agricultural commodity for the first time in more than eighty years.
That bill was passed by the Senate on Tuesday, and found approval in the House on Wednesday, Dec. 12. President Trump is expected to sign it into law later this week.
Jack Herer’s dream has finally come true. Hemp is legal, nationwide.
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3 comments:
Great news, very versatile product
It's about time!
The 1937 prohibition wasn't all about drugs. U.S. government was lobbied hard by pharmaceutical companies, yes, but also by the lumber and paper industries, the newborn synthetic fiber industry, cotton and wool producers, Big Oil, Big Coal, etc., etc. The loss of the hemp industry cost consumers huge amounts of money as they were forced to buy alternative products, farmers lost an enormously important and relatively easy to grow crop. The fix was in and palms were greased to get there.
Pot the cure all hahahaha...just makes you dumber and dumber.
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