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Article: HARRELSON LOSES LATEST HEMP BATTLE
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- The Columbian (Vancouver, WA)
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- March 24, 2000
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The Columbian
03-24-2000
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Actor Woody Harrelson on Thursday lost his battle to draw a legal line between industrial hemp and its narcotic cousin marijuana.
The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled there is no difference and said Harrelson has to go back to Lee County to be tried for possession of marijuana.
Harrelson planted four hemp seeds in 1996, knowing he would be arrested so he could challenge the law outlawing possession of any part of the cannabis plant.
Through three different courts, the star of "Natural Born Killers" and "The People vs. Larry Flynt" has argued the statute is unconstitutional because it does not distinguish between marijuana and hemp, ...