Feds Raid Indian Reservation To Destroy Industrial Hemp Crops

[1monster]

Sovereign lands must mean something totally different than what an objective understanding of those words would suggest...

http://cannabadger.com/breaking-news/2015/10/23/menominee-nation-industrial-hemp-crop-destroyed-by-federal-agents-friday/

http://www.copblock.org/144901/feds-raid-indian-reservation-to-destroy-industrial-hemp-crops/

Adorned in tactical gear and armed with AR-15s, the drug warriors focused their efforts along County Road M – west of Suring in Menominee County – and utilized front-end loaders and dump trucks to seize over 30,000 plants.

According to the DEA, it was serving a search warrant granted by a federal judge in Green Bay to raid a home, outbuilding, and about 20 acres of tribal land in the County.

In a statement, Besaw said growing the crop “was intended to comply with Congress’s actions in [the] 2014 Farm Bill which recognized a distinction between marijuana and industrial hemp that created an exception to the Controlled Substance Act to allow for growth, cultivation and the study of industrial hemp in certain circumstances.”

Besaw maintains that the Tribe “offered to take any differences in the interpretation of the farm bill to federal court,” and even offered to “destroy certain strains of the industrial hemp crop that [the feds] had identified as problematic,” but said the “offers by the Tribe were rejected in favor of the aggressive unilateral action.”

[Vinca]

1. That's ridiculous. It's not marijuana.

It bugs me that law enforcement wastes money on busting pot growers, but hemp growers are even worse. You can make fabric out of hemp. I think I saw hemp milk at the store (which poses another question - why can you drink it but not grow it).