Companies Plan To Adapt To Hemp

{Lexington, Kentucky}...Some Kentucky companies are already planning to try to adapt their businesses if the growing of industrial hemp is legalized in 2013. Lexington-based G.F. Vaughan Tobacco executives are planning a trip to Canada to see how the plant is processed in that country, where the crop is legal. Vaughan has spent 100 years processing tobacco, but the heyday of burley tobacco is long past. Hemp was once a staple of Kentucky agriculture but has been outlawed because it is a cousin to marijuana.