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Cannabis in Kentucky is illegal for recreational use, and legal for medical use under executive order, with full medical legalization statute taking effect in 2025. Non-psychoactive CBD oil is also legal in the state, and Kentucky has a history of cultivating industrial hemp for fiber since 1775.
19th century Kentucky hemp field Soldiers in a Kentucky warehouse guarding seed for the 1943 hemp crop. In the 18th century, John Filson wrote in Kentucke and the Adventures of Col. Daniel Boone (an appendix of his 1784 work The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke) of the quality of Kentucky's land and climate for hemp production. [1]
Spreading harvested hemp in Kentucky, 1898. Hemp in the United States is a legal crop. It was legal in the 18th and 19th centuries, then production was effectively banned in the mid-20th century, and it returned as a legal crop in the 21st century. By 2019, the United States had become the world's third largest producer of hemp, behind China ...
Advocates say there is potential for the crop to have greater economic benefit and that regulations on CBD and more infrastructure will help that happen.
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Does not reflect federal, tribal, or local laws. · Map does not show legality of hemp-derived cannabinoids such as CBD or delta-8-THC, which have been legal at federal level since enactment of the 2018 Farm Bill. State laws vary for hemp, and these hemp-derived cannabinoids. State law overrides the federal law of the 2018 Farm Bill.
If an alternative raw material for paper had emerged, it would have lowered the price of the paper needed to print Hearst's many newspapers—a positive thing for Hearst. [50] [51] Moreover, by the year 1916 there were at least five "machine brakes" for hemp [52] and it is unlikely that in the 1930s hemp became a new threat for newspapers owners.