By Janet Kubat Willette
Source: agrinews.com
ST. PAUL — A bill authorizing industrial hemp research in accordance with federal law cleared the first committee hurdle March 21.
HF2315, authored by Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis, passed both the House ag policy and Government Operations committees before the deadline for policy bills to make it out of all the policy committees in the body of introduction.
The bill now moves to the House ag finance committee.
The bill takes the language in the federal farm bill and makes it law in Minnesota, Kahn said. It would allow industrial hemp research plots in the state.
It is the first step, she said, in allowing farmers to grow industrial hemp in Minnesota.
Kahn has been a longtime proponent of industrial hemp, introducing the legislation in various forms since at least 2008.
She has worked with a legislator in Hawaii and a legislator in North Dakota on industrial hemp legislation. In North Dakota, the legislator is Rep. David Monson, a Republican from Osnabrock, who is a farmer near the North Dakota-Canada border.
Industrial hemp production is legal in Canada.
HF2315, authored by Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis, passed both the House ag policy and Government Operations committees before the deadline for policy bills to make it out of all the policy committees in the body of introduction.
The bill now moves to the House ag finance committee.
The bill takes the language in the federal farm bill and makes it law in Minnesota, Kahn said. It would allow industrial hemp research plots in the state.
It is the first step, she said, in allowing farmers to grow industrial hemp in Minnesota.
Kahn has been a longtime proponent of industrial hemp, introducing the legislation in various forms since at least 2008.
She has worked with a legislator in Hawaii and a legislator in North Dakota on industrial hemp legislation. In North Dakota, the legislator is Rep. David Monson, a Republican from Osnabrock, who is a farmer near the North Dakota-Canada border.
Industrial hemp production is legal in Canada.
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