to last year and the addition of four more states with hemp pilot programs.” “Colorado accounts for nearly a third of the legal hemp acreage in the country in 2017, at 7,500 acres. Oregon (3,469), North Dakota (3,020), Kentucky (3,000) and New York (2,000) rounded out the top five.”24 While the hemp cultivation explodes


under the state projects, water to cultivate the hemp is stymied. Te Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), charged with regulating and distributing water from federal reservoirs, holds a statute banning the use of its water on federally controlled substances, which includes marijuana and hemp, even if a state has legalized either of the substances.25 In response to the issue, H.R. 3530 (the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2017) was introduced.26


Tis law would separate


industrial hemp from psychoactive cannabis, thus removing it from under the Controlled Substances Act and allowing states to regulate it as any other crop. Similar to the House Bill, Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell made the announcement about a proposed change to federal hemp law.27


Until one or both of these


proposed laws are passed, hemp cultivation will continue to be laden with challenges. ❚


9 10 11


References 1 2 3


http://www.mit.edu/~thistle/v13/2/history.html https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/iiclr/pdf/vol23p555.pdf


Gabriel Archer, A Relatyon of the Discoveries of Our River..., printed in Archaeologia Americana 1860, p. 44. William Strachey (1612) records a native (Powhatan) name for hemp (weihkippeis); Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, 1619 Archived 2003-03-04 at the Wayback Machine., cf. the 1633 Act: Hening’s Statutes at Large, p. 218.


4


Daryl T. Ehrensing (May 1998). “Feasibility of Industrial Hemp Production in the United States Pacific Northwest, SB681”. Oregon State University. Retrieved March 28, 2018.


5


http://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/the-man- the-myth/george-washington-grew-hemp/;Bear, James A. Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds. Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997, 1:383; Robinson, Rowan. The Great Book of Hemp: The Complete Guide to the Environmental, Commercial, and Medicinal Uses of the World’s Most Extraordinary Plant. Rochester, VT. Park Street Press, 2010. Chapter 5:129-135. Print.


6


French, Laurence; Magdaleno Manzanárez (2004). NAFTA & neocolonialism: comparative criminal, human & social justice. University Press of America. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-7618-2890-7.


7 8 http://www.mit.edu/~thistle/v13/2/history.html


http://www.legisworks.org/congress/75/publaw-238. pdf http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/hemp/taxact/ woodward.htm


http://www.hemp.com/what-is-hemp/ https://www.cbp.gov/about/history/did-you-know/marijuana


Hemp Products may be imported Hemp Industries Ass. DEA, 333 F. 3d 1082 (9th (Hemp 2 9th


Cir. 2003 Hemp 1); and 357 F. 3d 1012 Cir. 2004) 12


https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dope/ etc/cron.html


13


https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-84/pdf/STATUTE- 84-Pg1236.pdf


14


Monson v. DEA, 522 F. Supp. 2d 1188, 1202 (D.N.D. 2007); U.S. v. White Plume, 447 F. 3d 1067 (8th


Cir. 2006) 15


P.L. 113-79 Section 7606 sets dry weight); https://www. gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hr2642enr/pdf/BILLS- 113hr2642enr.pdf 7; U.S.C. Section 5940


16


http://www.ncsl.org/research/agriculture-and-rural- development/state-industrial-hemp-statutes.aspx


17


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-extract-is-driving-a- hemp-gold-rush-but-is-it_us_5a7862cde4b0414342903961 (last visited March 31, 2018)


18


https://www.forbes.com/sites/debraborchardt/2017/08/23/ hemp-cannabis-product-sales-projected-to-hit-a-billion-dollars- in-3-years/#4655f760474ct (last visited March 31, 2018)


19


https://www.forbes.com/sites/debraborchardt/2017/08/23/ hemp-cannabis-product-sales-projected-to-hit-a-billion-dollars- in-3-years/#4655f760474ct (last visited March 31, 2018)


20


https://congress.gov/resources/display/content/Appropriation s+for+Fiscal+Year+2015


21


https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th bill/2029/text


22 -congress/house-


See i.e. The Minnesota Industrial Hemp Development Act (IHDA) https://datcp.wi.gov/Documents/ IHMinnAnnRpt2017.pdf)


23


http://votehemp.com/PR/PDF/Vote-Hemp-2017-US- Hemp-Crop-Report.pdf; https://www.agweb.com/article/ hemp-continues-return-acreage-doubles-in-2017-naa- farm-journal-editors/


24


http://www.westword.com/marijuana/colorado-leads- country-in-hemp-production-hemp-vote-says-9648009


25


U.S. BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, PEC TRMR-63, USE OF RECLAMATION WATER OR FACILITIES FOR ACTIVITIES


40 datia focus 26


PROHIBITED BY THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT OF 1970 (2015), www.usbr.gov/recman/temporary_releases/ pectrmr-63.pdf [https://perma.cc/P5WZ-Q9FG]. BOR issued guidelines in 2014 restricting the use of water from federal water projects to grow marijuana. Andres Stapff, Feds Ban Marijuana Growers from Using Government Water Supply, RT (May 21, 2014, 6:42 PM), http://rt.com/ usa/160560-reclamationwater-bureau-marijuana/ [https:// perma.cc/JG6Y-ZV26]. http://helenair.com/business/ montana-hemp-farmer-can-t-irrigate-her-crops-under-federal/ article_4eb9198f-01ca-57c4-a47c-16a3c0ace73b.html


https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/ house-bill/3530


27


https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomangell/2018/03/26/ sen-mitch-mcconnell-pushes-bill-to-legalize- hemp/#2063bacd581a; https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/ public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=92CD9FA7-C278-4332- B187-745C15F35EFC


Judge Mary A. Celeste (ret.) sat on the Denver County Court bench from 2000 to 2015. She was the Presiding Judge for 2009 and 2010 and the co-founder of the Denver


County Court Sobriety Court. She is the current chair of the ABA National Conference of Specialized Court Judges and Faculty for the National Center for DWI Courts (NCDC) and the National Judicial College (NJC). She has served as the president of the Ameri- can Judge’s Association and the Colorado Women’s Bar Association Foundation, and as a National Highway Traffic Safety Admin- istration (NHTSA) judicial outreach liaison. She has written many articles and is a national speaker on the topics of marijuana, marijuana drug-impaired driving, and spe- cialty courts. She has presented to NADCP, APPA, AJA, ABA, DATIA, NHTSA, Lifesavers, Pennsylvania DUI Association, Michigan and Louisiana Association of Drug Court Professionals, and to judges, specialty court conferences, and safety highway offices in the states of Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Massachu- setts, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and in Canada.


Postscript: Te Senate unanimously adopted a resolution last week that acknowledged “the growing economic potential of industrial hemp.” But with the 2018 Farm Bill, this could represent the first year that a hemp legalization provision actually passes in the Senate. htps://www.marijuanamoment.net/bill-to-legalize- hemp-poised-to-advance-in-key-senate-commitee/


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