Hemp tries to get over the hump

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Three years ago, an American Indian tribe in Wisconsin watched in horror as their “industrial hemp” crop was bulldozed after a federal agent swabbed a plant and alleged it was marijuana.

The field test was incapable of determining if the plants were marijuana or quasi-legal hemp, and experts are bracing for more confusion with the new national legalization of hemp farming after nearly five decades of prohibition.

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