Industrial pot cultivation measure introduced in Legislature. I’m not thinking it makes it out of committee.

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From the state legislature comes a measure to legalize industrial hemp:

Industrial Pot Legalization

Industrial hemp and some varieties of pot are indistinguishable from each other – which will not be of any benefit to helping make South Dakota Law Enforcement’s job any easier. Not to mention that The United States does not currently allow the cultivation of hemp.

Under Federal Law, all varieties of pot, including hemp, are considered Schedule I controlled substances under the Controlled Substances Act, and Hemp production is controlled and regulated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). It is illegal to grow hemp without a DEA permit. While some states have legalized hemp it for cultivation, I believe a grower still must get permission from the DEA in order to grow hemp, or face the possibility of federal charges or property confiscation, even if he or she has a state-issued permit.

Sorry, but this is yet another ill-informed backdoor measure at introducing pot to a state, with the eventual goal of it’s full legalization.

Does anyone think this measure is going to make it out of committee? Not me.  And that sounds like it’s as good a place for the measure to die as any.

16 thoughts on “Industrial pot cultivation measure introduced in Legislature. I’m not thinking it makes it out of committee.”

  1. Why do republicans feel the need to make the personal choice for others when it comes to marijuana consumption? Big govt needs to get out of regulating our lives. Apparently personal choices and accountability only works when it fits the Republican agenda.

    1. Gee, I don’t know. Maybe because MARIJUANA IS AN ILLEGAL DRUG!?!

      HAS THAT ESCAPED YOUR NOTICE?

      1. So was alcohol. I didn’t realize you were for prohibition. That really worked out well didn’t it?

        1. Was but isn’t now. Why do you wish to open a floodgate? Doesn’t the fact that Bernie Sanders is actually polling in the 30% range show that too many people are already too stupid?

    2. Personal choice with illegal drugs? Yeah that ends when it starts costing the rest of us in society from the damage and costs they inflict on others.

      1. Colorado has proven you wrong. Alcohol and gambling inflicts more damage on others but I bet you are all for that. Hypocrites

        1. Colorado is not the land of Unicorns & Rainbows that the pro-pot people and legalized drug dealers portray it to be with plenty of negative trends emerging but they will conveniently leave all that out and then respond with their lame claim that no one has died of a marijuana overdose. They died, injured themselves, others and crimes were committed while under the influence of pot which impaired judgment.

    3. How many more options do people need to escape reality and with it responsibility? I don’t feel like paying for rehab for people who can’t handle reality and try to escape all the time. If your life is so pathetic you need to get high, why don’t you do some soul-searching and try to make yourself a better, more productive person?

      1. They always claim it’s not addictive but instead it’s a hobby. Why do so many always need to get high all the time then? Just talked to a mother yesterday who’s son was chemically dependent to pot and she just got angry by the claims of the pot activists.

  2. This will hopefully end in a quick death. One of my main concerns was how law enforcement was going to distinguish between the industrial Hemp and recreational/fake medical varieties. The potheads never wanted to answer that or maybe they couldn’t remember.

  3. When my friend Bob shows up to campaign for the demon weed, the legislatures won’t know what hit them.

  4. Criminalizing hemp in an ag state like SD is completely idiotic. There’s no good reason to deprive farmers of another potentially valuable crop, especially in the more arid west river counties. It would absolutely enhance our economy if this bill were to pass, with hardly any social harm, or impact on law enforcement.

    1. It is already criminalized at both the state and federal level. You want to decriminalize it in part, but not all, like the medical pot people have, creating a mess of enforcement for drug interdiction.

      This is just a liberal mess.

    2. Hemp is just the latest in a long ling of “potentially valuable” over-hyped ag products that are simply scams. Jerusalem artichokes, mushrooms, tilapia, blah, blah, blah. Every time commodity prices drop, a whole ‘nother crop of these pop up, looking to snare a couple marginal operators hoping to save the farm. The state had it’s own hemp factory (it’s in the constitution) that failed when rope was actually worth something. Don’t see a new boom coming anytime soon.

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