Two Republican state senators plan to unveil legislation that would permit cultivation and processing of industrial hemp in Pennsylvania under the state's Department of Agriculture.
A councilman in Adams County is pushing hemp in an attempt to make an old industry new again.
David "Scotty" Bolton, a McSherrystown Borough councilman, said he thinks legalizing the plant would provide another cash crop for the county's more than 174,000 acres of farmland.
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-pa-lawmakers-activists-push-for-industrial-hemp-1224-20141224-story.html
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