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To: Mephisto who wrote (8345)	2/8/2004 1:33:44 AM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15516

We will have to watch, wait and see what happens between now and the summer conventions. Pat

To: Mephisto who wrote (8345)	2/8/2004 4:42:50 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15516

SOME good news: WHAT???? common sense....no! U.S. court OKs sale of hemp-based food products Friday February 6, 8:29 pm ET SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - An appeals court barred the U.S. government on Friday from preventing the sale and possession of food products made from hemp plants with small amounts of the substance that makes marijuana, a related plant, an illegal drug. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency may regulate marijuana and synthetic forms of the substance that gives the plant its narcotic powers, but the agency does not have authority to bar the sale or possession of all hemp-based food products, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in its ruling. Non-psychoactive hemp used to make food, oils, cosmetics rope, paper and other products, is not a so-called scheduled drug the DEA has authority to regulate despite hemp's small, or trace, amounts of the substance that produces a marijuana high, the court held. "Congress knew what it was doing, and its intent to exclude non-psychoactive hemp from (DEA) regulation is entirely clear," Judge Betty Fletcher wrote for the court.