Hemp: a way to grow more local jobs
By Rhonda Seltz
As recent news reports show continued tension between the two political parties, the looming fiscal cliff and no news on job creation, I found myself feeling a sense of despair about my country’s economic future.
That is, until I, a Democrat, had the opportunity to work with Republican Jim Politis. Yes, this left-leaning, liberal-thinking community activist was so impressed with that fiscally conservative, big-government-hating farmer’s ideas about economic development that she asked if she could work with him.
Seltz is a resident of Riner and a community activist.
December 23, 2012 - 7:32 AM
Just legalize the lot of it, or none of it. The distinction between “industrial” hemp and scoobie doobie is small. I’m not so sure there is a way to make it completely THC-free. You can, indeed, smoke enough rope to get high.
And you know that within those acres and acres of “industrial” hemp there’s going to be a patch or two of Bent Mountain Brown.