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Newsbrief:
Industrial
Hemp
to
be
on
Ballot
in
South
Dakota
6/21/02
The issue of legalizing industrial
hemp in South Dakota will be on the ballot for the general election on
November 5 of this year. The petition drive gathered 15,845 signatures
between May 8, 2001 and May 7, 2002. 13,010 signatures were necessary
to place the measure, Initiated Law No. 1, on the ballot. South Dakota
voters will decide whether or not to allow the planting, cultivation, harvesting,
possession, processing, transportation of, sale of and buying of cannabis
and cannabis-based products with a THC content of 1% or less.
The South Dakota Industrial
Hemp Council submitted the petition in May. SDIHC believes that legalizing
hemp cultivation in the state could save many of South Dakota's barely-surviving
farms, judging by the $125 million industry of importing hemp into the
United States, according to their web site (http://www.sodakhemp.org).
SDIHC received support from the Body Shop Outlet in Sioux Falls.
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Issue #242, 6/21/02
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