Assemblyman Mark Leno's industrial hemp bill [1] is headed for the state Senate, and the OC Weekly's staff blog [2] has a wonderful interview with the "joint" author, Republican Chuck DeVore. Devore, a lieutenant colonel in the national guard and hardly a pot-smoking San Francisco liberal, just thinks the bill makes good policy sense. Why shouldn't California farmers be able to grow a product that it's perfectly legal to import from Canada?
George Skelton [3] of the LA Times has an interesting hit: The guv, he points out, seems to like the nutritional supplements industry, and hemp oil makes for great supplements. Is there any way he can still veto this bill?
Links:
[1] http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/news_in_brief/leno_devore_bill_060127.shtml
[2] http://blogs.ocweekly.com/blotter/index.php?s=devore
[3] http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cap17jul17,1,2545429.column?ctrack=1&cset=true