Furnish and his brothers started raising hemp under a provision Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell got included in the farm. The provision allowed states to approve pilot programs under strict control because at the time hemp fell under the Controlled Substances Act along with its cousin, marijuana. Hemp was treated the same as marijuana although it has a lower concentration of the psychoactive compound deltatetrahydrocannabinol. He told the committee in the early years he once replanted a hemp field seven times before he got plants. Furnish said Kentucky acreage planted to hemp miney ky makes money from hemp farm from 33 in to 60, today. In the farm bill, McConnell, a Senate Agriculture Committee member, got provisions through that removed hemp from the Controlled Substances Act, making legal the widespread production of the plant for oil, fiber and dietary supplements. Products from hemp grown in countries where cultivation of the plant has long been legal fill many store shelves in the U. McConnell drom a rare appearance Thursday to introduce Furnish and to say he hoped a new generation of Kentucky farmers will find hemp as lucrative as tobacco once. But he acknowledged there are still hurdles.
