On February 14, 2013, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), along U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and U.S. Senators Ron Wyden...

On Thursday, February 14, 2013, SB 50 was posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day; with its third reading, it passed 31-6...

On February 11, 2013 Congressional representatives Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), former CIA...

On February 6, 2013, Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced federal legislation that would require the federal government to respect...

On January 8, 2013, SB 50 was introduced in the Senate. The bill differed than prior bills (SB 14 SB 30, and SB 41) in that it; 1)...

On January 8, 2013, HB 33 was introduced in the House, to the House Agriculture and Small Business committee. The bill, similar to...

In January 2013, after publishing "Industrial Hemp - Legal Issues" the prior fall, the University of Kentucky's Cooperative Extension...

In August 2012, Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer announced the revival of The Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission after a...

In September 2012, the University of Kentucky's UK Cooperative Extension Service published "Industrial Hemp – Legal Issues" from the the...

HR 286 was introduced in House on January 19, 2012. Similiar to HB 727, however this bill included additional amendments. This included...

HB 727 was introduced in the House on January 18, 2012. The bill, similar to both SB 30 and SB 41, in that it would define "department,"...

On Jan 11, 2012, SR 51 "A resolution to Adjourn in loving memory and honor of Louis Gatewood Galbraith" was adopted by voice. It had by...

SB 41 was introduced to the Senate Agriculture Committee, similar to SB 30, on January 3, 2012. This bill would have defined...

SB 30 was prefiled by its sponsors, J. Pendleton, P. Clark, and K. Stein, on November 17, 2010. A couple months later it was introduced...

On January 6, 2010, SB 14 was referred to the state agriculture commity which would create new sections of KRS Chapter 260 to define...

In October 2009, the University of Kentucky's Cooperative Extension Service published an Industrial Hemp Study through the New Crop...

On Feb 12, 2009, SB 131 was introduced to create additional sections of KRS Chapter 260. This bill set forth licensing and regulatory...

On July 30, 2003 a U.S. District Court in Frankfort, Kentucky awarded Donna Cockrel a $70,000 settlement from the Shelby County School...

On November 9, 2001, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision in Donna Cockrel vs. Shelby County Schools in a...

Similar to Kentucky HB 855, an act (KRS 260.850 to 260.869) to create an industrial hemp research program to be administered by the...