This was reported by Mitchell Plumlee of the City News Reporter
in Kentucky:

Industrial hemp production could be the way of the future for
Kentucky farmers faced with the loss of tobacco revenue,
according to former Gov. Louie Nunn. Nunn, a Republican and
former farmer, spoke Tuesday at Western Kentucky
University during the first Southern Kentucky Hemp Expo.

"I used to be skeptical about hemp until I read about this and
realized that this was the way of the future," he said.
"Desperate times call for desperate measures. Times have turned
away from tobacco.  We're losing farmers just like we lost
soldiers in WWII.  Farmers are the lifeblood of this state."
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Wow! I think we are witnessing the beginning of the tidal change.