Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Hemp and the Legacy of 'The Last Free Man in America' 

  Jonathan Miller-  HuffPost The Blog

 

...  As the General Assembly slogged towards the conclusion of its business, however, Senate Bill 50 appeared to be gasping through its last throes; indeed, the bill was pronounced dead on about a half dozen occasions. Ultimately, it was another leader with real backbone, Democratic House Majority Leader Rocky Adkins, who offered persistent resuscitation. And at a late night meeting between Adkins, Comer and Senate bill sponsor Paul Hornback -- with just about 60 minutes before the General Assembly would be closed for the year for business -- a compromise was hammered out. It was one of those bi-partisan, problem-solving moments that we dream about in our No Labels grassroots movement, an all-too-rare moment when good policy trumps hyper-partisanship. The kind of moment at which Gatewood Galbraith would have simply shaken his head and smiled his famous crooked grin.  ...

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