Baylen Linnekin Says: Free Hemp!

The 2014
Farm Bill was a disaster. While it ended direct farm subsidies, it
replaced them with crop insurance subsidies—which may end up being
more costly. It kept in place inane and costly sugar tariffs and
duplicative catfish inspection programs. And it proposed to spend
nearly fifty percent more than the previous Farm Bill. The bright
spot in the Farm Bill—a tiny seed of good news—was that Congress
saw fit to include an amendment that would loosen the federal
government’s idiotic stranglehold on cultivating hemp.

But now the DEA has thrown a wrench into the law. It’s held up a
shipment of seeds destined for Kentucky, and forced the state to
sue the federal government in order to seek their release.

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