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The Missouri Senate Agriculture Committee took testimony Monday on legislation to create an industrial hemp pilot program in the state.  The bill is sponsored by Missouri Senate Agriculture Chair Brian Munzlinger.

“Currently there are 34 states that have approved, through legislation, the production of industrial hemp,” said Senator Munzlinger, during the committee hearing Monday.  “Right now, there are 19 states producing industrial hemp.”

Munzlinger’s bill would allow farmers licensed by the Missouri Department of Agriculture to grow, cultivate and market industrial hemp. 

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