American legislators aren’t too keen to give Canadian hemp growers southern competition.
Neither the chair of the House of Representatives agriculture committee nor the Democratic minority leader of the Senate seem interested in legalizing the crop.
“At this point I would say no,” said South Dakota senator Tom Daschle.
“I don’t see that changing any time soon.”
Texas Republican Larry Combest, who heads the House agriculture committee, said neither his party nor the Democrats’ representatives have spent much time considering legalization of hemp, a non-drug cousin of marijuana.
He said the committee would be willing to consider legalization, but it knows little about the crop or the dangers legalizing it could bring.
Daschle said it wasn’t hard to see how problems with hemp could arise.
Canada grew its first legal hemp crop last year.
