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California Assemblymember Chuck DeVore (R-70th)

conservative Republican State Assemblymember Chuck DeVore wants to legalize the growing of “industrial hemp“ in California

California Assemblymember Chuck DeVore, who represents the 70th Assembly District in Sacramento, and who most recently (yesterday) appeared on Etopia News calling for legislation that would facilitate the construction of nuclear power plants in California, has also introduced a bill, AB 684, the “California Industrial Hemp Farming Act,” which would legalize the growing in California of hemp, the non-drug cousin of marijuana.

According to the Wikipedia entry linked to above:

“Hemp is the common name for plants belonging to the genus Cannabis, although the term is often used to refer only to Cannabis strains cultivated for industrial (non-drug) use.”

Assemblymember DeVore spoke this morning with California Politics Today about this legislation, of which he is a co-author along with San Francisco Assemblymember Mark Leno.

You can listen to that conversation with Assemblymember Chuck DeVore about industrial hemp and why he thinks it makes sense to legalize its cultivation in California, in the Marijuana Channel below, even though hemp, which is defined in AB 684 as Cannabis sativa with “no more than three-tenths of 1 percent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) contained in the dried flowering tops,” is not, strictly speaking “marijuana,” just a close vegetative relative of it.

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