The 2018 bill, however, identified hemp as an agricultural plant, not a controlled substance. Farm Bill stated that the only lawful purpose for which industrial hemp may be grown is for research conducted by an institute of higher education or a state department of agriculture.
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1, 2021, the new guidelines will apply to farmers in every state. 31, 2020, for the establishment of a domestic hemp program under the 2018 bill. The USDA closed the comment period on Jan. Department of Agriculture has temporarily adopted proposed regulations virtually identical to those used by West Virginia in 2019. That won’t change in 2020 because the U.S. Yet, THC-A will increase total THC concentrations. THC-A is non-psychoactive but can become delta-9 THC when heated. Only tiny traces of it are found in industrial hemp. Delta-9 THC is the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. As opposed to just testing delta-9 THC, as some other states had done, West Virginia also tests THC-A levels. Many West Virginia farmers had difficulty staying under the THC ceiling because of the method the state used to test THC levels. Department of Agriculture under the federal farm bill that became law in December 2018. Those regulations were approved by the U.S. That’s because the hemp farmers here in Monroe County are hot at the state Department of Agriculture for destroying much of their crop this past growing season because they were deemed too “hot” - that is, over the ceiling of 0.3 percent THC set for industrial hemp. Union, W.Va, a tiny, no-stoplight town in southeastern West Virginia, is the hotbed - literally and figuratively - of the emerging hemp economy in Appalachia. Photo courtesy of Heather Bryant and Kris Gupton By Michael M. growers, but Bryant and Gupton say they are committed to farming hemp. A pending state bill poses new threats to N.C.
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Kris Gupton and his wife Heather Bryant have grown hemp in Western North Carolina for four years.