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Podcast: The Andrew Cooperrider Show
Episode: Is Hemp Dead in KY?
Description: Unless something changes, Mitch McConnell killed Kentucky’s hemp industry.Under a last-minute rider he slipped into the continuing resolution, 97.5–100% of the hemp currently being grown in Kentucky could be declared illegal by the federal government—not just in the Bluegrass State, but nationwide.Growers would be forced to switch overnight to a genetically modified hemp strain that may not even exist yet— if the new language is interpreted to cover living plants and not just finished products. Even if such a miracle seed magically appears, 97.5% of Kentucky’s existing c...