I can't wait to get to read this more slowly but I want to leave an upvote and note while I can. Kentucky State Agg has been fighting to get hemp into the state. My husband said he'd be interested except for fighting off the nuts that don't know that the hemp plant grown largely for textiles etc don't produce the high of the plants grown for smok'n and he'd have to hire guards ... etc. ... I don't think he's far off.
I know the first year, the feds held the seeds hostage a good long time ... but eventually Kentucky won out. The last I heard they're operating under a legal umbrella of some sort to prove out the viability. You're making me curious to follow up and see how things are progressing.
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@marilaanne great! Once everyone grows its fine it really isn't a big deal IF it becomes legal nationwide again. Colorado does not have those issues, of course people have guns and know how to use them.
Yes Kentucky won out and I did not get into all the controversy over Big Pharm, Tob companies, government, etc. I only shared the video that was found in the Congress Library that they tried to hide from the next generations.
Great you stopped in, thank you so much!
Yes, If it were common place, the drama would be over.
Big Pharma ... Yes. Surely, we are at war.
And the tobacco industry is truly a whole nother interesting deep dive. I should really make it a point to talk to some of the old folks about it. I started chatting with a gentleman in line a restaurant line one day and he said the industry today is completely unrecognizable from the days gone by. He started trying to explain to a city girl who isn't from around here.... Yeah me... And then we got interrupted...
Then we lived on the edge of the city. Now we live on a farm that may or may not have grown tobacco but the barn was definitely used to dry harvests.
The more we learn ... the more we learn we should have known our great-grandparents and their parents.
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You are preaching to the choir here sistah! LOL
I am Native American (50%) so I"m getting very connected to my roots and ancestry. Thank goodness there is still the pure form of oral history and sharing like the old days. I can happily say those times aren't gone ... yet.