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Jim Riddle

Jul 10, 2026

6:32
Yeah
6:33
... and let alone something so minute as this.
6:36
So, um, it really is important for people to contact, especially their senators, and say, "Keep seeds legal." This is a big issue because it's going to cost millions of dollars of lost revenue for all the small businesses that grow seeds like I do, but also the whole hemp industry, just at a time where hemp is growing, all the products.
7:02
We're just learning all the incredible things from human food, livestock feed, plastics, medicines, all sorts of things are derived from hemp, and it's gonna place the US at a totally unfair competitive disadvantage to all of like Canada, China, all the-

23 MINS LATER

29:54
Like, we've been breeding for 30 years.
29:57
Yeah, yeah, and, uh, just my sense of the grassroots nature of the whole cannabis and hemp, it's not gonna be suppressed.
30:06
Yeah, it might have to go underground for a while, but people's passion, their attachment To their varieties, to their seeds, to their strains, and to the heritage that they're carrying forward is really deep.
30:22
And it's been underground the majority of the time in this country.

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