Source: SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 4/16/18

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, has introduced a bill to legalize the cultivation of industrial hemp.
McConnell’s bill, The Hemp Farming Act of 2018, S. 2667, was introduced April 12, 2018. If passed, the bill would remove industrial hemp from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act  and federally legalize commercial cultivation of the crop.

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