Hemp Legal?

 Never having been a pot smoker, I still find marijuana legalization an interesting topic. It is non-lethal but the federal government schedules it alongside heroin. Considering how legal opioids turned this country upside down, it is time to reconsider marijuana.

Which is why, seeing the headline Congress Accidentally Legalized Weed Six Years Ago on Google News, I clicked on the link.

This is probably not what Congress had in mind when it passed the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018, commonly called the 2018 Farm Bill, which made the production of hemp—cannabis’s traditionally nonpsychoactive cousin—legal for the first time in nearly a century. Lawmakers who backed hemp legalization expected the plant to be used for textiles and nonintoxicating supplements, such as CBD oil and shelled hemp seeds (great on an acai bowl). They didn’t realize that, with some chemistry and creativity, hemp can get you just as high as the dankest marijuana plant.

Quite an interesting article by Mike Riggs. I wonder if a second Trump Presidency would not see it all regulated again. Although, hemp is now a big business.

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