News (Media Awareness Project) - US CO: Hemp Initiative Stalls |
| Title: | US CO: Hemp Initiative Stalls |
| Published On: | 1999-12-29 |
| Source: | Denver Post (CO) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-09-05 07:48:15 |
HEMP INITIATIVE STALLS
Backers of a ballot initiative to legalize industrial hemp have
decided to shelve their proposal for this year.
According to a news release from Colorado Hemp, backers don't want to
have the industrialhemp measure on the same ballot as a measure to
legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes.
The medicinal marijuana proposal was placed on the 2000 ballot after
it was determined that the former Secretary of State Vikki Buckley had
incorrectly kept it off the 1998 ballot.
The language of the industrial-hemp proposal had distinguished hemp
from marijuana by the content of THC, the chemical component that
makes people "high" when they smoke marijuana.
Backers of a ballot initiative to legalize industrial hemp have
decided to shelve their proposal for this year.
According to a news release from Colorado Hemp, backers don't want to
have the industrialhemp measure on the same ballot as a measure to
legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes.
The medicinal marijuana proposal was placed on the 2000 ballot after
it was determined that the former Secretary of State Vikki Buckley had
incorrectly kept it off the 1998 ballot.
The language of the industrial-hemp proposal had distinguished hemp
from marijuana by the content of THC, the chemical component that
makes people "high" when they smoke marijuana.
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