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Sen. Cory Gardner backs bill legalizing industrial hemp on federal level
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Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner announced Thursday he is co-sponsoring the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2015, which would legalize industrial hemp for commercial use. Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner (Kathryn Scott Osler, Denver Post file)If passed, the bill would exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marijuana in the Controlled Substances Act.
“Industrial hemp is a safe substance with many practical commercial applications,” Gardner said in a media release. “Removing it from the Controlled Substances Act is a commonsense move which would create jobs and get the government out of the way of farmers and our agricultural industry.”
The bill was introduced by Oregon Democrats Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and Kentucky Republicans Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul.
Legalized hemp could be a “major boon to Colorado agriculture,” Gardner said. Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822, knicholson@denverpost.com or twitter.com/kierannicholson
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What if a plant seed could cure breast cancer and treat epileptic seizures, but a federal agency got in the way of medical research?
Numerous studies have shown the health benefits of cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive ingredient of cannabis, found primarily in the seeds. In one study, for example, CBD prevented cancerous tumors in mice, according to the National Cancer Institute.
CBD may also help people with epilepsy, according to Deb McGrath, executive director of the Epilepsy Foundation of Kentuckiana. In recent months, McGrath, the mother of an epileptic child, has joined other parents in calling for legalization of CBD, commonly known as hemp oil.
CBD is found in all types of cannabis, but appears in greater quantities in industrial hemp, according to experts. Supporters say the plant should be considered an agricultural commodity — not a drug — because hemp doesn’t have enough THC to catch even the slightest buzz. In fact, experts say, smoking hemp causes headaches and growing hemp can ruin marijuana’s potency through cross-pollination.
Yet, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) considers hemp a narcotic in the same category as LSD or heroin. That’s why the DEA recently seized 250 pounds of hemp seed in Kentucky. The seeds, imported from Italy, were destined for research projects authorized by Congress and President Obama as part of the 2014 Farm Bill.
To prevent the DEA from interfering with hemp research, numerous groups are teaming up against the federal agency. Last week, the U.S. House approved two amendments that would stifle the DEA’s control over hemp.
Just a few weeks ago, Kentucky’s Department of Agriculture filed a lawsuit in federal court to force the DEA to release the confiscated seeds, which were imported from Italy. Following a two-week battle in federal court, the DEA released the seeds. But only after Kentucky officials applied for a controlled substance permit. The "controlled substance" was delivered via UPS truck to State Agriculture Commissioner James Comer’s office and some were planted at University of Kentucky’s research farm in Lexington, Kentucky. Scientists there hope to pinpoint which types of hemp will grow best in the region.
The planting was hailed as a historic moment for Kentucky, which was once a hotbed for hemp production. But the battle over hemp is far from over, according to those involved in the case. "Although we applied for a permit to import a controlled substance, we still maintain industrial hemp is not a controlled substance and DEA has no authority over hemp pilot programs because the farm bill specifically gave regulatory authority to the states," said Holly Harris VonLuehrte, chief of staff to Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer, who is overseeing the research projects. "We concede nothing by planting these seeds. We simply wanted to get this seed in the ground and get our research started. However, we will keep this case active."
In a May 22nd letter releasing the seeds, the DEA warned Kentucky officials that private farmers could face prosecution for planting hemp, and pilot projects could be destroyed as part of the federal marijuana eradication program. The DEA said it seized the seeds because the intent of the farm bill is unclear and doesn’t include rules for importing hemp seeds. In response, state officials sent a letter to a federal judge in Louisville, seeking a declaratory ruling. A court date has yet to be announced.
The DEA’s confusion is unwarranted, according to U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville), who helped draft the Farm Bill legislation. McConnell recently released a statement, saying he was frustrated that "the DEA is using its finite resources to stymie plainly lawful hemp pilot projects at the very time Kentucky is facing growing threats from heroin addiction and other drug abuse."
The DEA has stated repeatedly that law enforcement officials might not be able to distinguish legal hemp from illegal marijuana. In the May 22nd letter, the agency "strongly suggests" Kentucky officials provide details such as global positioning coordinates for hemp plots and anticipated growing dates.
"The DEA appears to be dazed and confused by industrial hemp," said Andy Graves, a Lexington farmer whose family has grown hemp for seven generations, including during World War II for the "Hemp for Victory" program.
Graves, a spokesperson for the Kentucky Hemp Seed Research and Development Company, which is participating in the research projects, said plans are underway to import another 1,000 pounds of hemp seed. But the shipment is on hold because the DEA said a separate permit will be required for each new shipment of imported seeds.
"An import permit allows for a set amount of a controlled substance to be imported," a DEA spokesperson stated in an email to Rolling Stone. “Therefore, each time the Kentucky Dept. of Agriculture intends to import a controlled substance, in this case hemp seeds, they must ensure they have a valid import permit or apply for another one. Depending on the number of applications being processed, a permit can be approved and issued as quickly seven days and as long as three weeks.”
That creates a conundrum because there is a small supply of viable, certified industrial hemp seed in the U.S., according to industry experts. "There isn’t much industrial hemp seed remaining in the U.S. because law enforcement, who get paid to destroy hemp, and marijuana growers, who don’t want hemp to cross-pollinate with their pot, have systematically destroyed feral hemp over the years," David Spalding, who served 27 years as a horticulture research associate for University of Kentucky and 10 years as a U.S. Department of Agriculture economist, tells Rolling Stone.
"It seems like selective enforcement for the DEA to force Kentucky farmers to obtain permits for hemp, while Colorado residents can grow six pot plants under state law without being regulated by DEA," adds Spalding, who as president of Hemp Oil Kentucky plans to grow hemp for CBD oil. "The DEA is simply trying to protect its cannabis eradication budget."
The DEA declined to answer specific questions about the eradication program or enforcement.
Others agree that waging a War on Drugs against hemp seems ludicrous. "We believe the farm bill language is clear; the Controlled Substances Act does not apply to these programs," Joseph Sandler, a Washington, D.C., lawyer who is representing some of the Kentucky farmers involved in research projects, tells Rolling Stone. "If necessary, the farmers we represent are prepared to pursue appropriate legal action."
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Last May, a shipment of 250 pounds of hemp seeds left Italy destined for Kentucky as part of a pilot project made legal by the 2014 federal farm bill. Kentucky farmers had long hoped for a crop that could fill the void left by the decline of tobacco, and many thought that industrial hemp, which is used in a vast array of products, could be that crop.
The hemp seeds cleared customs in Chicago, but when the cargo landed at the UPS wing of Louisville International Airport, the Drug Enforcement Administration seized it, arguing that importing hemp seeds required an import permit, which could take six months to process. If farmers couldn’t get those seeds into the ground by June 1, the entire first year of the hemp pilot program would be dashed.
The DEA would have succeeded in blocking the seeds from reaching Kentucky farmers and university researchers but for the efforts of the state’s agricultural commissioner, who sued the agency and, most improbably, Mitch McConnell.
McConnell—then the Senate’s minority leader—worked furiously to free the seeds from the DEA’s clutches and continued the pro-hemp drumbeat throughout 2014, as he campaigned for reelection. This year, as Senate majority leader, he’s taken a further step by co-sponsoring the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2015. While the farm bill carved out an exception to allow hemp cultivation in Kentucky, the 2015 bill would remove hemp entirely from the list of drugs strictly regulated by the Controlled Substances Act. It would, in essence, legalize hemp production in the United States.
“We are laying the groundwork for a new commodity market for Kentucky farmers,” McConnell told me. “And by exploring innovative ways to use industrial hemp to benefit a variety of Kentucky industries, the pilot programs could help boost our state’s economy and lead to future jobs. … I look forward to seeing industrial hemp prosper in the Commonwealth.”
Yes, Mitch McConnell said that. About hemp.
To grasp how McConnell—the quintessential establishment Republican—came to champion industrial hemp, you must first understand the economics and internal politics of Kentucky, as well as McConnell’s relationship to Kentucky’s junior senator, Rand Paul. It’s also helpful to know that close to $500 million worth of hemp products produced by Canada and other countries is already sold in the United States through such stores as Whole Foods. McConnell’s move also has potential ramifications beyond the marketplace, providing a credible threat to the Controlled Substances Act since it was signed into law by President Richard Nixon in 1970.
“The fact that Majority Leader McConnell is a co-sponsor of a hemp bill shows how fast the politics are changing on this issue,” said Bill Piper of the Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit group that favors reform. (Bill Piper should not be confused with Billy Piper, former McConnell chief of staff and current K Street lobbyist).
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The story of how Mitch McConnell evolved on the hemp issue began in 2010. Rand Paul, a Tea Party favorite, was running to replace the retiring Jim Bunning in the U.S. Senate and spent much of the primary season blasting McConnell, who not only represented the establishment but also supported a different Republican candidate. The McConnell-Paul relationship changed dramatically after Paul prevailed in the primary and McConnell vigorously stepped in to support him in the general election against the Democratic nominee, Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway.
The bond only grew when Paul came to the Senate in 2011. Paul encouraged McConnell to consider the hemp issue because it was favored by conservatives and Tea Party types, according to two sources familiar with those discussions. McConnell listened.
The other Kentucky Republican who played a role in McConnell’s evolution was Jamie Comer, the state’s newly minted agriculture commissioner. In August 2012, Comer held a news conference before the 49th annual Kentucky Farm Bureau Country Ham Breakfast—a big shindig on the Kentucky politics circuit—to announce that legalization of hemp in the state would be his No. 1 priority in the next legislative session. Paul and U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, another Kentucky Republican, were there to support Comer; each later testified in support of Comer’s measure before the state Senate agriculture committee in February 2013, along with Rep. John Yarmuth, a Democrat from Louisville.
“I engaged with Jamie Comer,” Yarmuth told me. “He reached out to me. From the beginning it’s been a bipartisan thing.”
In Washington, D.C., McConnell was approached multiple times from hemp supporters back home. After the fourth such approach, the senior senator from Kentucky turned to his chief of staff, Josh Holmes, and said, “We’ve got to look into this.”
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If, like the average U.S. senator, you are unfamiliar with the botany of the cannabis plant, here’s a quick primer:
For starters, hemp is sometimes referred to as marijuana’s “cousin,” which is an unhelpful metaphor because hemp and marijuana are actually the same species, Cannabis sativa. They are simply different strains, and they are cultivated and harvested in different ways.
The cannabis plant is dioecious, which means its male and female flowers grow on different plants. This is unusual: Dioecious species—including gingkoes, willows and a few others—make up only 6 percent of all flowering plants.
Hemp is produced after the male plant fertilizes the females—something that happens almost immediately once the plants flower. Marijuana, on the other hand, is produced from the unfertilized flower of the female plant. A person interested in growing marijuana wants only female plants; a plant that shows signs of male flowers is plucked immediately, before it can mature and pollinate the females around it.
Pollen contamination is one of the chief concerns of marijuana growers, legal and illegal, because as soon as a female flower becomes pollinated, she stops making her THC-rich resin and begins focusing entirely on seed production. (Hemp is defined by Kentucky law as containing less than 0.3 percent THC; unfertilized marijuana flowers could have THC levels of 20 percent or more.)
For decades, the law enforcement lobby has peddled anti-hemp talking points that just didn’t add up. During the 2013 farm bill debate, the DEA asserted that, “It can be extremely difficult to distinguish cannabis grown for industrial purposes from cannabis grown for smoking. This is especially true if law enforcement is attempting to make this determination without entering the premises on which the plants are being grown.”
A man who was issued the first state permit to grow industrial hemp said he and a nonprofit group of growers and activists hope to plant a 25-acre field in Southwest Oregon this spring.
Edgar Winters, of Eagle Point, Ore., who describes himself as director of the Oregon Agriculture Food & Rural Consortium, acknowledged there are problems obtaining seeds for planting and other complications, but said he is optimistic. Winters also said warehousing and processing facilities will be ready to go when a crop is harvested in late summer.
“We are in position to do 40 tons a day at our processing mill,” Winters said. “We’ve got our ducks in a row.”
Getting seed to plant is one of the major hurdles. Importing it requires the approval of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Oregon Department of Agriculture and Oregon State University are working with the DEA on that process. In addition, Winters said a major Canadian hemp company, Hemp Textiles International, has breeders’ rights to its seed and will not allow Oregon growers to retain seed for planting. Meanwhile, the existing state statute requires hemp seed produced in Oregon to be replanted.
“We’re at a standstill,” Winters said.
He said hemp seeds might be available from Russia, Hungary, Australia or New Zealand.
“We have to import to get started,” Winters said. “We don’t want our farmers to sit around another year.”
Winters’ LinkedIn profile lists him as self-employed and the chief operations officer for Natural Good Medicines. It also lists him as a master gardener and involved in research and development services for industrial hemp. He said people often hear his name and mistake him for Texas rock and blues musician Edgar Winter.
Ron Pence, who oversees the industrial hemp growing program for the state agriculture department, said the seed issue is one of three tweaks the Legislature may want to make it the 2015 session.
As written, a 2009 state statute says hemp seed collected in an Oregon harvest can only be used to produce a new crop — not crushed for oil or other high-value products, for example, or used as livestock feed. Pence said the restriction appears to be an oversight.
Another issue is the requirement for a three-year growing and handling license and a three-year seed handling permit, each of which cost $500 a year, or $1,500 for the required three years.
“A person could easily invest $3,000 in a license and permit before spinning a wheel to produce hemp,” Pence said. The fees may be restructured to an annual basis, at $500 each, so a person could try his or her hand at it for a year at less expense.
A provision that requires a minimum production area of 2.5 acres also may be reconsidered, Pence said.
The Oregon Legislature legalized hemp cultivation in 2009, but the law was never implemented because the U.S. Department of Justice classified hemp the same as marijuana. The federal classification remains, but the justice department has said it won’t interfere in states that have legalized hemp production if they adopt a robust regulatory system. Industrial hemp was included in the November 2014 ballot measure that legalized recreational marijuana use, possession and cultivation.
Hemp is related to marijuana but has a much lower concentration of THC, the chemical compound that makes pot users high. Industrial hemp was widely grown and milled in the Midwest especially through the 1940s, but faded. Supporters of hemp’s revival note that it has multiple uses, including for fiber, fabric, food, oils, cosmetics, plastics and many more.
Russ Karrow, former head of the Crop and Soil Science Department at Oregon State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences, has said hemp grown for fiber would do well in the Willamette Valley. But hemp grown for seed, probably a more valuable crop, would require summer irrigation, Karrow said. Hermiston and Treasure Valley, in Eastern Oregon, have warmer growing days than the Willamette Valley and would be the best places to grow hemp, Karrow said in interviews with the Capital Press.
