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It's legal to grow hemp in Oregon. Why only a few are doing it

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 06/17/2015 - 08:00

Doctors and lawyers, entrepreneurs and farmers.

The Oregon Department of Agriculture issued 13 permits authorizing industrial farming for the first time ever this year.

Lack of financing, difficulty procuring seeds and conflict over fears industrial hemp will cross-pollinate with its psychoactive cousin, marijuana, have kept the young program in a protracted state of infancy.

Recreational use of marijuana is legal in Oregon starting on July 1. While the public discusses the pros and cons of legal weed, the reintroduction of industrial hemp to Oregon agriculture has been less noticed.

Oregon is one of a handful of states moving ahead with plans to legalize industrial hemp even though it remains largely illegal under federal law.

Supporters have long fought to legalize industrial hemp, calling it a high-value,...

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