Topic: DRUGS - on October 13, 2013 at 5:31:00 PM CEST
Legal or not, Colorado farmers bringing in nation’s first hemp harvest since the 1950s
Southeast Colorado farmer Ryan Loflin tried an illegal crop this year. He didn’t hide it from neighbors, and he never feared law enforcement would come asking about it.
Loflin is among about two dozen Colorado farmers who raised industrial hemp, marijuana’s non-intoxicating cousin that can’t be grown under federal drug law, and bringing in the nation’s first acknowledged crop in more than five decades.
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