Source: Bruce Schreiner, WRAL, 7/5/18

 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calls it an "absurdity" that the U.S. imports hemp but puts severe restrictions on American production. The Kentucky Republican is looking to change that by legalizing the crop in the next federal farm bill.
McConnell toured a hemp processing plant in his hometown of Louisville on Thursday, and then touted his proposal to bring back hemp as an agricultural commodity by removing it from the controlled substances list that currently associates the crop with its cousin —

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