North Dakota says Okay, Feds just say NO to Hemp

Two farmers in North Dakota have failed to convince a judge that industrial hemp should not be regulated under federal law because it is not technically marijuana. Wanye Hauge and David Monson, were seeking a declaration that the Controlled Substances Act should not be applied to hemp so they could pursue state sanctioned cultivation of the commodity. Judge Pasco Bowman, who was appointed by Ronald Reagan, wrote in his ruling that Congress had a “rational basis” for regulating the cultivation of cannabis plants and there fore found that the definition of marijuana to include all cannabis plants in the Controlled Substances Act should be upheld.