Join in the Industrial Hemp Debate with #KYTonight

As The RP (Jonathan Miller) and Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer debate industrial hemp legalization with state law enforcement officials on Kentucky Tonight, join in the online debate on Twitter.

Your tweets will be posted LIVE below, and whenever possible, the panelists will respond to them, either on air, or afterwards online.

Some Guidelines:

1. Use the hashtag #KYTonight somewhere within your tweet, and it will be posted LIVE below
2. Refer to Jonathan Miller as @RecoveringPol, Commissioner Comer as @KYComer, and host Bill Goodman as @BillKET
3. Click the following links to read the reports referenced in the debate:

• University of Kentucky’s report, Economic Impact of Industrial Hemp in Kentucky – HTML version
• KY Senate bill 50, establishing a regulatory structure for industrial hemp should the federal government legalize it.
• H.R. 1831, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2011 (PDF file 164 MB)
• Congressional Research Service, Hemp as an Agricultural Commodity – Updated Version,  December 18, 2012 (PDF file 483k)
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimous decision declaring that trace amounts of THC found in hemp are not sufficient to permit DEA regulation.

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