{"id":33721,"date":"2013-05-13T15:35:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T21:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/13\/planting-hemp.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T23:27:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T05:27:43","slug":"planting-hemp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/13\/planting-hemp.html","title":{"rendered":"Planting Hemp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">And I mean <i>real<\/i> hemp, for industrial use, not a nickname for marijuana (to which it is related). \u00a0Hemp used to be a major industrial crop in this country, grown by presidents and non-presidents. \u00a0Then politics, &quot;reefer madness&quot; scare tactics, and competitors got its growth outlawed on a federal level. Now Colorado, among others, is looking to bring it back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/111267716732125387127'>The Denver Post<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Springfield, Colo., farmer Ryan Loflin on Monday planted the nation&#39;s first industrial hemp crop in almost 60 years. Loflin&#39;s plans to grow hemp already have been chronicled, and Monday&#39;s planting attracted the attention of more media in southeastern Colorado and a documentary film crew.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/18GlB4M\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/18GlB4M<\/a><br \/>(Photo by AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-zZ9YsHPVPoU\/UZFI7nlYZVI\/AAAAAAAADB4\/syDDekR8TsI\/HempRyanLoflin.jpg?imgmax=1600' border='0' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/igYNqrKD6zJ' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I mean real hemp, for industrial use, not a nickname for marijuana (to which it is related). \u00a0Hemp used to be a major industrial crop in this country, grown by presidents and non-presidents. \u00a0Then politics, &quot;reefer madness&quot; scare tactics, and competitors got its growth outlawed on a federal level. Now Colorado, among others, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/13\/planting-hemp.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Planting Hemp&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,17,371,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-homeland-security","category-war-on-drugs","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30758,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/22\/colorado-ballot-propositions-2012-amendment-24.html","url_meta":{"origin":33721,"position":0},"title":"Colorado Ballot Propositions 2012: Amendment 64","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Oct-12 10:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the one making all the national news: Legalized Marijuana. (UPDATE: Thanks, Stan, noting that it's Amendment 64,\u00a0not 24. Corrected.) Amendment 64 could be a lot of things, but I'll be honest up front that it's a kitchen sink combination of marijuana legalization, taxation, hemp production, etc. and so\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2012&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2012","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2012"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/marihuana-movie.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/marihuana-movie.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/marihuana-movie.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/marihuana-movie.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/marihuana-movie.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":31252,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/going-to-pot-in-colorado.html","url_meta":{"origin":33721,"position":1},"title":"Going to Pot in Colorado","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Nov-12 9:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well. This should be interesting.Plus, hemp production.I foresee some interesting butting heads with the Feds, and lots of role reversals over how federalism is supposed to work.Reshared post from +The Denver PostUPDATE: An amendment that would make it legal in Colorado for individuals to possess and for businesses to sell\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31407,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/17\/family-goes-to-comes-from-pot.html","url_meta":{"origin":33721,"position":2},"title":"Family goes to (comes from) pot","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 17-Nov-12 11:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, not really, but I was amused to discover, after the recent flurry of discussion about the legalization of marijuana and hemp cultivation in Colorado that Margie's 4th great-grandfather (John Williams (1789-1852) was a farmer and hemp manufacturer in Woodford Co., Kentucky. 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It's kind of crazy that only 25 years ago, Colorado\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/elex-e15415480122585B15D.jpegimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/elex-e15415480122585B15D.jpegimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/elex-e15415480122585B15D.jpegimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37393,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33721\/revisions\/37393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}