State Police Opposed To Hemp

{Frankfort, Kentucky}…Kentucky State Police Commissioner Rodney Brewer says his agency is opposed to proposals to grow industrial hemp in Kentucky. Brewer says it's incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to the casual observer or even the astute observer to tell the difference between hemp and marijuana as its being grown, and theproblem becomes even more difficult when police use helicopters to search for marijuana fields. Hemp and marijuana are the same species, cannabis sativa, but are genetically distinct. Hemp has a negligible content of THC, the psychoactive compound that gives marijuana users a high.