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Volume 7, Number 3 | February 26, 2015
Who Are those guys?
The Sopris Sun posse is looking to round up another sold-out crowd for this year’s Classic Movie Night at the Crystal Theatre. Last year’s inaugural fund-raiser for Carbondale’s non-profit community newspaper featured the World War II-era “Casablanca.” This year we go back to the final days of the Wild West with the Paul Newman/Robert Redford classic “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” at 7:30 p.m. on March 2. For details, please turn to pages 5 and 10. From left to right are; Terri Ritchie, Denise Barkhurst, Lynn Burton, Debbie Bruell, Barbara Dills, Illène Pevec and John Colson. Photo by Jane Bachrach
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John Colson Sopris Sun Correspondent ocal industrial hemp activists recently announced that “things are happening quickly” with regard to the idea of legalizing hemp nationwide for cultivation, processing and use in making a wide range of products. The announcement noted the introduction earlier this year of two bills in the U.S. Congress aimed at de-listing hemp, a plant that is similar to marijuana but is not psychoactive, from its current federal status as a dangerous drug.
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The most recent newsletter of the Colorado Hemp Education Association (CHEA), based in Carbondale, declares, “We need everyone to be contacting U.S. senators and representatives in the next few months. And not just in Colorado. If you have family and friends in other states, it’s time to get them involved, too.” The two bills — S. 134 and HR 525 — each would end hemp’s listing as a Schedule 1 drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA), passed during the Nixon HEMP page 15
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