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