HARRELSON AND THE GOV

Actor Woody Harrelson goes on trial in August for planting four hemp
seeds in his crusade to cultivate the plant for industrial use, but
his attorney said the evidence had disappeared like a puff of smoke.

Louie Nunn, a former conservative Republican governor of Kentucky,
said he would defend Harrelson, though he has never met him nor seen
any of his movies. Nunn said he volunteered to defend Harrelson for
free because he agrees with him that hemp as a cash crop would be a
boon to Kentucky farmers.

Harrelson was arrested in 1996 for ceremoniously planting four hemp
seeds in rural Kentucky to challenge a Kentucky law that makes no
distinction between marijuana and hemp. Hemp can be used to make
textiles, paper, soap and other products, but contains little of the
drug found in its more potent relative.