Industrial Hemp Farming Act

FEDERAL AGENTS RAID MENOMINEE TRIBE

 

By Leon Thompson

November 13, 2015 (Indian Country) -- Federal agents swarmed the Menominee Indian reservation Friday and destroyed 30,000 industrial hemp plants.  In spite of the fact that President Barak Obama assured the American Indian Nations that Federal Enforcement would ‘stand down’ where Indian Tribes chose to experiment with growing industrial hemp.


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