{"id":7185,"date":"2017-01-30T23:25:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T23:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/?p=5774"},"modified":"2017-01-30T23:25:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T23:25:31","slug":"south-carolina-considers-industrial-hemp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/south-carolina-considers-industrial-hemp\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Considers Industrial Hemp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/south-carolina-considers-industrial-hemp\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Florence, SC \u2013 Several state legislators want to legalize a crop they say could help farmers still reeling from flood damage.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters say industrial hemp has countless uses and believe its benefits are far-reaching. While it was legalized on the federal level in 2014, industrial hemp faces one major obstacle\u2013its relation to another controversial plant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a billion-dollar industry and it\u2019s growing, and I believe SC needs to get a piece of the pie,\u201d said Rep. Lucas Atkinson (D-Marion).<\/p>\n<p>Atkinson isn\u2019t wasting any time during his first term representing the Pee Dee trying to help the state\u2019s struggling farming industry. One way is supporting a bill that would establish the \u201cSouth Carolina Hemp Program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHemp reform seems like it\u2019s common sense for South Carolina because it\u2019s not getting anyone high or hurting anyone,\u201d said Atkinson.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters say the plan would expand the market and allow farmers to grow enough industrial hemp to support an increasing national demand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just imagine the revenue what industrial hemp could bring in for our South Carolina farmers and our economy as a whole,\u201d said Atkinson.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would let farmers apply for a license to grow the plant and give colleges and universities a chance to research it. Industrial hemp, while grown from a plant similar to marijuana, is not psychoactive, meaning it won\u2019t get anyone high, though it does have plenty of positive uses. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s lots of different things that you can grow hemp for,\u201d said Janel Ralph.<\/p>\n<p>Ralph is the owner and CEO of Palmetto Harmony, a company that makes a line of hemp products. She started the company to meet the demand for quality hemp oil and food products that many say that have changed their lives, including her daughter Harmony\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve gotten a 90 percent seizure reduction from her being able to access hemp oil from the hemp plant,\u201d explained Ralph.<\/p>\n<p>Many fear allowing industrial hemp means the possibility of real marijuana being grown as well. Ralph said farmers can\u2019t grow the two anywhere near each other without ruining their crop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re gonna get very low yield, very low THC,\u201d she said, referring to any marijuana grown near industrial hemp. \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be sought on the open market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One more interesting use for industrial hemp, the door panels on BMW\u2019s made right here in South Carolina. That hemp, though, is imported here from other states like Kentucky, at least for now.<\/p>\n<p>House Bill 3559 has been referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs for further discussion.<\/p>\n<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/south-carolina-considers-industrial-hemp.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"> <\/p>\n<p>News Moderator: Katelyn Baker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\" target=\"_blank\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a><br \/>\nFull Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/wbtw.com\/2017\/01\/28\/sc-legislators-consider-industrial-hemp-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">South Carolina Legislators Consider Industrial Hemp Program<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: Matt Parris<br \/>\nContact: 843-293-1301<br \/>\nPhoto Credit: Solomon Banda<br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/wbtw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WBTW News 13<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florence, SC \u2013 Several state legislators want to legalize a crop they say could help farmers still reeling from flood&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/2017\/01\/south-carolina-considers-industrial-hemp\/\" class=\"read-more\">[Read More]<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1607,9,1,3],"tags":[4175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}