If Kristi Noem wants answers to her 319 questions about industrial hemp, maybe she should have gone with Sioux Falls City Councilman Pat Starr to a Sioux Falls Development Foundation event that led him to put the council on record supporting hemp:
Last week, the Council voted 7-1, with Curt Soehl the lone no vote, to add support of industrial hemp legalization to its legislative priorities.
Councilor Pat Starr said the legalization of hemp has economic benefits to not just South Dakota, but specifically Sioux Falls and its budding biotech industry that can use the product to make protein items, thickening agents and other [by]-products of the plant.
“I think this is something that really drove home to me the importance of industrial hemp in our state,” Starr said then, referring to a recent event of the Sioux Falls Development Foundation he attended that provided policymakers with a tour of a Glanbia Nutritionals’ processing plant. “There is no THC that’s left in the product, or it’s at a very microscopic level” [Joe Sneve, “Council: Sioux Falls Would Benefit from Hemp, Bee-Friendly Flowers{,} and More Cop Training,” that Sioux Falls paper, 2019.08.20].
Amazing how much one can learn when one is actually curious about a topic and not just trying to kill a proposal with biased questions.
Glanbia is an Irish outfit that set up shop in Sioux Falls in 2013. Glanbia supports hemp legalization because it can make money processing hemp protein alongside flax and other crops.
Let’s start working on 319 questions on why Kristi should be reelected …. or not.
Pink Slime, SD’s favorite protein, always needs thickening agents. Instead of just cooking it into shredded slime tacos at The Bell it can be made into slime patties for ‘Donalds.
Well, with SD’s revenue in the tank and continuing to fall, I wonder if NoMa’am will be smart enough to consider hemp as a badly needed economic boost. Or does she plan to continue the GOP playbook of economic incompetence?
One of the arguments I’ve heard against hemp– including just this morning on the radio– is that law enforcement (such as Highway Patrol) will have a hard time identifying illegal marijuana vs. legal industrial hemp.
Apparently they don’t realize that even if SD refuses to allow industrial hemp to be grown here, industrial hemp and hemp products will be moved across the state on our interstate highway system. Interstate commerce is regulated by the federal government, so SD won’t be able to stop it at the border.
The law enforcement voices heard are simply parroting what their idiot bosses tell them to say. Every law enforcement officer I have heard testify in legislative hearings on hemp or “drugs” (and I’ve heard several) acted as if he (all were men) had no mind, just a regurgitative device.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBikfG2VXtY
In case you’ve ever wondered what Hemp harvest looks like. This could be your future if Drumpf and trade wars don’t bankrupt you and you survive.
Ooooooh. So the top harvests the buds for oil and such while the bottom cuts the stalks for fiber. Well. So there has to be 2 separate tracks inside the combine for each. Can’t just retrofit your existing combine? Argh. Spendy.