{"id":7214,"date":"2017-02-14T22:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2461477&amp;preview_id=2461477"},"modified":"2017-02-14T22:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T22:00:28","slug":"hemp-for-cows-colorado-approves-hemp-animal-feed-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/hemp-for-cows-colorado-approves-hemp-animal-feed-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemp for cows? Colorado approves hemp-animal feed study"},"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\/hemp-for-cows-colorado-approves-hemp-animal-feed-study\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>DENVER \u2014 Colorado livestock could be eating hemp under a bill that passed the state Senate Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The state Senate voted 34-0 in favor of bill directing the Colorado Department of Agriculture to study the feasibility of allowing farmers to use hemp in animal feed. Currently the practice is forbidden.<\/p>\n<p>Hemp is a non-intoxicating cousin of marijuana. The federal government started allowing farmers to grow hemp under limited circumstances in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington state Legislature passed a similar bill in 2015.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n<p>However, agriculture authorities in that state concluded just last month that hemp is not yet safe to use in poultry feed, saying there isn\u2019t sufficient research on whether marijuana\u2019s intoxicant, THC, could pass to the birds.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado has about 300 hemp growers.<\/p>\n<p>The hemp measure now moves to the House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado livestock could be eating hemp under a bill that passed the state Senate Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5776,5062,6969,6811,6970,55,77,9,5019,1778,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[5782,5063,6971,6816,6972,2635,2655,5022,4346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7214"}],"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=7214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}