Jim Barton is finally harvesting a crop of hemp, the cannabis variety used in colonial times to make rope, sailcloth and other goods.
But the 80-year-old Kentucky farmer isn’t celebrating the successful drive to loosen marijuana laws that also moved Congress to allow pilot plots of his non-intoxicating version of the plant.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-10/marijuana-becomes-savior-stigma-for-revived-hemp-crop.html
