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Back in the ‘30s, William Randolph Hearst and Pierre DuPont used their money and influence to buy politicians into lumping hemp in with marijuana ( a distant cousin in the cannabis family of plants) as the government had set out to prohibit marijuana.
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Hemp legalization bills introduced to California legislature (via Raw Story )
Two California lawmakers, state Sen. Mark Leno (D) and state Assemblyman Allan Mansoor (R), introduced legislation on Friday to legalize industrial hemp production in the state. The bills, S.B. 566 and A.B. 1137, would allow non-psychoactive variants of the marijuana plant to be cultivated for industrial…
