Industrial Hemp Getting Wide Support

{Frankfort, Kentucky}…Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer says he sees widespread support building in the General Assembly and across the state for legislation pushing industrial hemp. The commission meets Friday, and Comer says members will discuss potential legislation and the possibility of a new economic study to evaluate the hemp market. State Senator Paul Hornback, R-Shelbyville, who supports legislation to move Kentucky to the forefront of potential hemp production and is widely expected to become the next chairman of the Senate agriculture committee,  says, if he is named chairman, he would call Comer's hemp bill for a vote.