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On February 20, 2020, House Bill 136 passed 65 to 30. It was the first time a medical marijuana bill has been taken up by the full House. The bill proposes restrictions on who can have medical marijuana and where it can be used, and prohibits smoking medical marijuana. It stalled in the Senate due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Kentucky Marijuana Strike Force, also known as the Kentucky Governor's Marijuana Strike/Task Force, is a multi-agency law enforcement task force managed by the Office of the Governor of Kentucky and Kentucky State Police Marijuana Suppression Branch, and composed of local, state and federal agencies organized expressly to eradicate illegal cannabis cultivation and trafficking in Kentucky. [1]
In 1991, the program claimed to have eradicated 118 million feral cannabis plants, mostly in Indiana and Nebraska, versus about 6 million cultivated plants in the same program (95% and 5% of the total, respectively). [3] A 2003 report noted that 99% of the cannabis eradicated under this program in 2003 was feral cannabis, not cultivated plants.
A hemp plant in a field outside Lexington, Ky., grown by Cornbread Hemp. A tobacco barn with tobacco drying is in the background. Tobacco, long a cash crop of Kentucky, could see hemp plants such ...
Kentucky is one of a dozen states that permit only limited access to products with low THC, the chemical in marijuana that gets you high. The other states and territories are: Georgia
Indiana's nowhere close to legalizing marijuana in any form. And that's probably a-OK with Michigan and Illinois. According to their most recent monthly data, our neighbors raked in more than $400 ...
19th century Kentucky hemp field Soldiers in a Kentucky warehouse guarding seed for the 1943 hemp crop. In the 18th century, John Filson wrote in Kentucke and the Adventures of Col. Daniel Boone (an appendix of his 1784 work The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke) of the quality of Kentucky's land and climate for hemp production. [1]
Higdon's book reports that assistant US Attorney Cleve Gambill said at the June 1989 press conference: "The organization is a highly motivated, well financed group of marijuana growers from Kentucky who are responsible for growing this vast amount of marijuana [and who] call themselves the Cornbread Mafia.".