Committeemembers plan to start slow, perhaps with a pilot project at theUniversity of Vermont, then more work at the Vermont TechnicalCollege, and then licensing to ensure producers grow hemp forindustrial uses-not for marijuana. Ihaven't seen anything like this that has this much economic potential,which we clearly need. Maslack is 37. The older membersof the House Agriculture Committee swallow or pause before discussinghow they told their constituents back home about the idea. Being from my age bracketand never having gotten involved in pot and having tried to convincemy kids not to use pot, the contradiction is difficult.
Farmers are starvingin the trenches.
Talk of the hemp samples lured dozens oflawmakers and Statehouse visitors into the House Agriculture Committeeone lunch hour. Thursday, the committee offered tastes of hempbrownies and passed around a catalog from Phillips's company thatfeatured maple-flavored hemp seeds. This will even make the green sneaker crowd happy. Free Press Writer Stacey Chase contributed to this report. Marijuana containsa chemical, delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, commonly called THC,that gives people a high.