Stewart Burrows spends most nights in pubs, playing cover tunes till 3 a.m., give or take, then driving back to the Châteauguay Valley. Waiting for him are his wife and three kids, and 20 heads of cattle from which he sells aged beef; $700 for 100 pounds.
Last week, we told you about the beginning of America's first hemp harvest in more than fifty years, which started in late September in southeastern Colorado.
In a sign of changing times, at least two separate marijuana initiative campaigns are getting underway in Wyoming, one of the reddest of the red states. One initiative would legalize marijuana and hemp, while the other limits itself to medical marijuana.
A Vermont farming group is cheering a Department of Justice memorandum that it says could clear the way for the worry-free cultivation of hemp by the 2014 growing season.