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American
Farm
Bureau
Reverses
Position
on
Hemp
at
Convention
2/26/99
Marc Brandl, [email protected]
Delegates at this year's
American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico
withdrew language approved last year opposing research and domestic cultivation
of industrial hemp. The issue of industrial hemp has been a contentious
one for the Farm Bureau over the past three years. In 1996, delegates
endorsed a resolution to, "encourage research into the viability and economic
potential of industrial hemp production in the United States... includ[ing]
planting test plots." This language was replaced in 1998 by a vote
of 198 to 168 after Missouri Farm Bureau president Charles Kruse brought
up concerns from law enforcement that hemp and marijuana were indistinguishable.
The American Farm Bureau
now takes no position in regards industrial hemp. According to a
legislative aide with the AFBF in Washington, DC, "The Bureau will not take
a position either way on any federal legislation involving hemp, but this
in no way precludes state chapters from lobbying elected officials either
for or against [hemp]."
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Issue #80, 2/26/99
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