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Senator Denounces Federal Ban On Hemp, Explains Industrial Uses [Video]

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Senator Ron Wyden publicly denounced the federal ban on hemp, pointing out that we are selling hemp products in grocery stores throughout America but are, ridiculously, legally bound from growing it on American soil.

Under the federal Controlled Substances Act, hemp is classified under marijuana but Wyden points out that they are "very, very different in key ways.

Wyden iterated to his colleagues at the Senate:

"Industrial hemp does not have the psychoactive properties of marijuana. You'd have as much luck getting high by smoking cotton from a T-shirt as you would by smoking hemp,"


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