Farm Bill Will Change Controlled Substances Act

Posted on June 29, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

A monumental and historic piece of legislation seeks to change the Controlled Substances Act by removing hemp and “hemp tetrahydrocannabinols” from the most restrictive Schedule I classification was passed by the Senate on Thursday, June 28, 2018. The 1,000-page piece of legislation known as the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, or just Farm Bill for short, contains U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) Hemp Farming Act language normalizing hemp as an agricultural commodity....

Florida Pushed Past Missouri with Hemp Bill

Posted on June 26, 2017June 26, 2017 by GSTL-NORML

Missouri legislators have been one-upped again as another state has legalized hemp cultivation. Nineteen states have done what Missouri legislators have failed to do for the last three years running; allow Missouri to start an industrial hemp pilot program. Florida will now move ahead of Missouri in cultivating hemp. Florida's Governor Rick Scott signed an Industrial Hemp Pilot Project bill into law on June 16, 2017. The hemp bill passed the Florida House with a majority support of 108 YEA...

Missouri Hemp Enthusiasts Celebrate Hemp Week Without Hemp

Posted on June 5, 2017June 21, 2017 by GSTL-NORML

Margaret MacKenzie, a hemp farmer in Colorado surveys her hemp field.

The Hemp Industries Association (HIA) and Vote Hemp launched the 8th annual, nationwide Hemp History Week, June 5-11, 2017. Missouri hemp and cannabis activists don't have much to celebrate during the 2017 Hemp History Week. The Missouri Senate failed to pass Paul Curtman's HB 170 hemp bill in the 2017 session which would have allowed the Show-Me state to start industrial hemp cultivation. This marks the third year in a row Paul Curtman (R) from District 109 has sponsored an industrial...