<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of WFPL News (Louisvilke, Kentucky) at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><h1 itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: normal; clear: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); line-height: 30px; font-size: 28px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; ">McConnell Looking at 'All the Options' to Legalize Hemp Production in Kentucky</h1></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kentucky’s senior U.S. Senator says he plans to do his part to help the commonwealth’s farmers eventually grow industrial hemp.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says he and fellow Senator Rand Paul met with state Agriculture Commissioner Jamie Comer last week as Comer toured Washington to drum-up for support for legalizing the crop.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">McConnell declined to gauge the possible success of comer’s lobbying efforts…</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I don’t know yet," he said. "It may require legislation and of course that’s why Commissioner Comer was here to talk to Sen. Paul and myself. We’re going to be exploring the legislative options, obviously. If the administration were to give some kind of waiver, we probably would not need legislation. So we’re looking at all the options to make it possible."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Among other things, industrial hemp can be used to make clothing, paints, cosmetics and rope. Last month, Kentucky’s legislature passed a bill to establish an industrial hemp program if the federal government makes it legal. </span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Legalize it! Regulate it! Tax it!</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><img src="cid:B7C63E9F-382A-40B1-98DA-362D201CF33A" alt="image.jpeg" id="B7C63E9F-382A-40B1-98DA-362D201CF33A" width="552" height="567"><br><br><div>Seeya at the Wingding, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>