The US Senate voted to permit the provision of banking services to companies specializing in the use of psychoactive hemp

Only in Colorado hemp business for the year brought a profit of more than a billion dollars.

The Committee, in the US Senate voted for the opening of access to official hemp companies, specializing in working with psychoactive hemp, the services of banks and financial institutions.

Senate Budget Committee, by 16 votes "for" and 14 votes "against", approved an amendment to the US government's budget for 2016, which prohibits governments "spend budgetary funds" for the provision of counter banks that conduct transactions with hemp companies based in jurisdictions where psychoactive hemp officially legalized for different needs. "

Prior to the adoption of the amendment, many large US banks refused to deal with the hemp business, as they could be penalized by the federal government of the country for violation of laws on the financing of the illegal businesses and money-laundering obtained illegally.

"This misunderstanding has created in our country a new, fast-growing industry, which is completely dependent on the conduct of settlements in cash, which in turn has created countless risks and challenges for the participants in this industry," said the initiator of the amendment, Senator Jeff Merkley, in his speech before the Commission. "This situation creates freedom for thieves and robbers, ready to profit at the expense of honest businessmen."

In addition to the amendment of the Financial Services hemp industry, the US federal budget for 2016 contains a surprise - Budget Commission lifted the ban on the use of public funds for the development of psychoactive cannabis legalization in Washington (DC), which will allow American capital to begin drafting for the legalization of recreational cannabis retail sales.

Early Hours budget presented at the beginning of the year, so do not contain a ban on sales of legalization in Washington. The decision to lift the ban was taken in the course of negotiations between the two parties and the US is a compromise in which retail sales are allowed with some restrictions.

Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"

According to US data, in Colorado alone, hemp business for the year brought a profit of more than a billion dollars. Any sane person knows that such money is deposited in the form of cash is problematic and dangerous. The ban, effective until recently, the provision of financial services hemp business, in fact, hung a huge target for criminals not only to the enterprises themselves, but also their employees and visitors who robbed the regular constancy.

At this point, it is 4 amendment concerning psychoactive hemp, approved by the Senate committee. Previously, senators have adopted amendments that will allow access to American veterans of hemp medicine, banned by the federal government interfere with scientific research of cannabis, and to prohibit the Supreme Court to interfere with the program for the dissemination of medical cannabis in several states. The latter two amendments also approved the US Congress.