No medicinal/recreational grower of Marijuana would want a hemp field anywhere NEAR their crop. Hemp cross-pollination destroys the marijuana flowering process. This whole argument that pot growers can hide their crop in hemp fields is nonsense and an outright lie.

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Yolo County doesn't want to be site of hemp farms
By Cathy Locke

Published: Monday, Jul. 25, 2011 - 12:00 am | Page 1B
A bill that would allow industrial hemp farming in targeted areas of California for the first time since World War II could be on Gov. Jerry Brown's desk by September.

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The Yolo County Board of Supervisors, however, has asked the bill's sponsor, Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, to remove Yolo from the proposed legislation, said Chris Lee, a spokesman for the county's intergovernmental affairs office.

Lee said the county's sheriff and district attorney were concerned that law enforcement officers would have difficulty distinguishing hemp, a non-psychoactive form of cannabis, from illegal marijuana growing operations.


Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/25/3791618/y...


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