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Wisconsin might soon join Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesota in allowing commercial production of industrial hemp.  State Senator Patrick Testin from Stevens Point tells Brownfield the proposal is getting bipartisan interest. If passed, the state would license and regulate hemp growers.  “You’d also have to provide the GPS coordinates where the fields are going to be located, and on top of that, anyone who has been convicted of drug trafficking or drug-related charges won’t be able to get a license to grow industrial hemp here in the state.”

Both hemp and marijuana are in the cannabis plant family. 

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