User talk:Lloyd Casey

In 1995 and 1996 when Lloyd Casey was a state senator in the state of Colorado he sponsored a bill to permit farmers to grow hemp which did not contain any tetrahydrocanabinol. The DEA, county sheriffs, city police and attorney general accused him of subterfuge; that he was encouraging the planting of marijuana. He resorted to the words 'industrial hemp' because of the many industrial products in which hemp can be used. This was the beginning of what is now industrial hemp having been made legal in Colorado in 2023 and Hawaii in 2014. Eventually, when thousands of acres of industrial hemp are planted, the cost effectiveness will be such that industrial hemp will replace wood for making paper. It will save thousands of trees.