Hemp, Guns, and National Security

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🗓️ 31 July 2014

⏱️ 25 minutes

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U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) discusses federal regulation of hemp, polling on marijuana reform, reasserting the Second Amendment in D.C. and the legislative effort to curtail the National Security Agency's sweeping data collection practices.

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0:00.0	This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, July 31st, 2014.
0:07.0	I'm Caleb Brown.
0:08.0	Republican U.S. Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky doesn't think much about NSA spying on Americans.
0:14.0	The challenges faced by DC residents to secure their own protection and
0:19.2	federal regulation of hemp.
0:20.8	He visited the Cato Institute this week to discuss these issues and more.
0:25.1	I spoke with Representative Steve Cohen a while back and he was calling for
0:30.0	what Rand Paul is essentially calling for now which is for the federal government to truly respect states once and for all that have legalized marijuana for medical and other purposes.
0:43.0	You've been very vocal in pushing from the hemp side for the federal government to respect states.
0:49.0	Is there a legislative nexus here with respect to federalism and getting the feds out of
0:57.0	regulating cannabis at the state level?
0:59.0	Well, I try and get the two separated hemp from cannabis because they are even though they're
1:05.4	cousins and there's virtually the same plant one's used for one thing and one's
1:09.6	used for another and you can't get high off of hemp.
1:13.6	But I'd like to talk about both of those issues.
1:16.8	Himp is widely supported in Kentucky because our Republican Commissioner of Agriculture
1:22.4	ran on the Hympt platform.
1:24.6	It was a part of his platform and was elected in a year that was otherwise bad for
1:31.1	Republicans.
1:33.4	It's an alternative crop for farmers in Kentucky.
1:36.6	It used to be grown in the United States.
1:39.8	It's really separate from the drug issue.
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