ALL HELL HAS BROKEN LOOSE!! At the final meeting of the Task Force, the Chairman said that he was building a docking facility for a paper company and that hemp would never be able to compete with cheap wood chips ($25 ton). The Chairman then tried to force members of the Hemp Task Force into “rubber stamping” his Final Report to the Governor. The report was put in front of the members right before the Chairman ask for a vote of approval. Four members said that they would not vote for a report they had not read. The Chairman forced his vote and won approval by majority vote. When reporters heard what happened, well you can see from the editorial what they think. The four dissenting Task Force members are writing their own report representing the truth about the environmental and economic viability of hemp as a cash crop for Kentucky farmers.
Locating and substantiating indisputable and verifiable information on the environmental and economic potentials of industrial hemp is vital to the creditablity of this minority report. Any and all information would be helpful and greatly appreciated. Send info to:
Ms. Gale Glenn
Hemp Task Force
2612 Basin Springs Road,
Winchester, Kentucky 40391.
Please forward, a.s.a.p., to all that are interested.
From: Fresh7@aol.com (Joe Hickey)