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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2007 file photo, North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson, right, gets ready to sign the state's first commercial hemp farming license for Rep. David Monson, R-Osnabrock, right, at the Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. Neither Monson nor farmer Wayne Hauge, who were issued the nation's first hemp production licenses, has grown a crop, after failing to get approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration and losing a court battle against the federal government. Both farmers hope a farm bill provision allowing for the cultivation of research hemp crops will be a huge step toward making marijuana's cousin a viable farm commodity. (AP Photo/Will Kincaid, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2007 file photo, farmers Wayne Hauge, left, and Dave Monson talk about their industrial hemp lawsuit during a news conference in Bismarck, N.D. North Dakota's Agriculture Department issued the nation's first hemp production licenses to Monson and Hauge but neither has grown a crop, after failing to get approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration and losing a court battle against the federal government. Both farmers hope a farm bill provision allowing for the cultivation of research hemp crops will be a huge step toward making marijuana's cousin a viable farm commodity. (AP Photo/The Tribune, Will Kincaid, File)
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Actor Ralph Fiennes listens to journalists questions at the press conference for the film The Grand Budapest Hotel during the International Film Festival Berlinale, in Berlin, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Axel Schmidt)
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Actor Ralph Fiennes answers journalists questions at the press conference for the film The Grand Budapest Hotel during the International Film Festival Berlinale, in Berlin, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Axel Schmidt)
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Jury president James Schamus poses for photographers during the jury photo call at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Axel Schmidt)