Marijuana’s misunderstood cousin is making a comeback in Kentucky and on a local level. In 2013, the Bluegrass State became the first to legalize hemp production. Riding on the support of U.S. Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, along with Agriculture Commissioner James Comer, the legislation expanded a market for thousands of products produced using […]
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Kentucky: Hemp Will Contribute To The Landscape Of The State
With industrial hemp helping define the future economic landscape of Kentucky, Freedom Seed and Feed, LLC has partnered with the University of Pikeville to develop a research institute designed to facilitate the development of this new industry within the coalfield region of Eastern Kentucky. Paul E. Patton, chancellor and interim president of the University of […]
Kentucky Sues OxyContin Makers for $1 Billion
The state of Kentucky is suing Purdue Pharma, the makers of addictive opiate OxyContin, for withholding its dangers from them. This is a bold and aggressive step, and a milestone for big pharma accountability. High Times
University Of Kentucky Harvests Hemp Crop
A hemp crop years in the making in the halls of the Kentucky legislature and the U.S. Congress took only a few minutes to harvest Tuesday from a University of Kentucky farm field. With that harvest, roughly more than half of the first-year experimental crop is now out of the field and headed or soon […]
Victory for Hemp in Kentucky
University of Kentucky agronomy researchers on May 27 planted a small hemp plot at Spindletop Research Farm outside Lexington — marking a victory in the state's showdown with the Drug Enforcement Administration. The seeds used were part of a shipment from Italy that … High Times
Georgia and Kentucky Marching Into the CBD Box Canyon
Kentucky and Georgia are moving forward with bills that would legalize the use of cannabidiol by patients. The Kentucky Senate unanimously approved a bill that would allow the medical schools at the state’s two public institutions to treat severe seizure disorders w… High Times
One Couple’s Fight To Legalize Medical Marijuana In Kentucky
Eric Crawford is standing up for his right to smoke medical marijuana. Eric and his common law wife, Michelle Young-Crawford have kept their lives as private as possible, but due to a set of extenuating circumstances in September that put their lives into the court system, they have made a choice to step into the […]