Ringside Seat: Hemp bill’s future rests with governor
BioDesign Labs, a Santa fe-based company, is helping run a 40-acre industrial hemp farm in Antonito, Colo. Farmers in Colorado have a head start on hemp production because voters in their state have legalized industrial hemp’s cousin, marijuana. New Mexico legislators this month approved a bill to import industrial hemp seeds and allow research of the plant at New Mexico State University, but whether that will happen depends on whether the governor signs the measure. Courtesy BioDesign Labs
Ringside Seat: Hemp bill’s future rests with governor
BioDesign Labs, a Santa fe-based company, is helping run a 40-acre industrial hemp farm in Antonito, Colo. Farmers in Colorado have a head start on hemp production because voters in their state have legalized industrial hemp’s cousin, marijuana. New Mexico legislators this month approved a bill to import industrial hemp seeds and allow research of the plant at New Mexico State University, but whether that will happen depends on whether the governor signs the measure. Courtesy BioDesign Labs
Ringside Seat: Hemp bill’s future rests with governor
BioDesign Labs, a Santa fe-based company, is helping run a 40-acre industrial hemp farm in Antonito, Colo. Farmers in Colorado have a head start on hemp production because voters in their state have legalized industrial hemp’s cousin, marijuana. New Mexico legislators this month approved a bill to import industrial hemp seeds and allow research of the plant at New Mexico State University, but whether that will happen depends on whether the governor signs the measure. Courtesy BioDesign Labs
MILAN SIMONICH
Ringside Seat
Posted: Monday, March 30, 2015 12:15 am | Updated: 9:14 am, Mon Mar 30, 2015.
Ringside Seat: Industrial hemp measure’s future rests with governor Milan Simonich SantaFeNewMexican.com |
Part-time farmer Jerry Fuentes has spent the last 15 years championing industrial hemp as the perfect crop for drought-ridden New Mexico and corporate America.
Hemp is used to make auto dashboards, briefcases, carpeting, insulation and an array of other products. Even so, Fuentes’ attempt to legalize industrial hemp seemed like a fool’s errand or a cause for rebels, not button-down businessmen.
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