KNOE-TV
A Northeast Louisiana lawmaker is leading the charge to make the state a leading industrial hemp manufacturer.
Representative Travis Johnson, (D-21) of Ferriday, authored a law creating the Industrial Hemp Promotion and Research Program.
“This will allow us to work with Southern University and LSU to conduct research to really push industrial hemp on the forefront,” Johnson told KNOE.
Johnson says hemp, which the federal government defines as any part of the cannabis plant that contains under 0.3% THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, can be used to make rope and over 10,000 other products.