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State Hemp Laws
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Arkansas
Laws and Resolutions Authorizing Hemp Research
Year Passed: 1999
Summary: The Arkansas Senate approved Senate Resolution 13 resolving that the "University of Arkansas, Division of Agriculture conduct studies regarding the uses and economic benefits
of industrial hemp
[and] report its findings to the House and senate Interim Committees on Agriculture and Economic Development." No state study appears to have been completed.
California
Laws and Resolutions Authorizing Hemp Research
Year Passed: 1999
Summary: The California Assembly approved House Resolution 32 resolving the Legislature "consider action to revise the legal status of industrial hemp to allow for its growth in California." This legislation also advises the Legislature "consider directing the University of California, the California State University, and other state agencies to prepare studies in conjunction with private industry on the cultivation, processing and marketing of industrial hemp." No state study appears to have been completed.
Hawaii
Laws and Resolutions Authorizing Hemp Research
Year Passed: 2001
Summary: The Hawaii Legislature approved House Bill 32 allowing "privately funded" hemp research to be conducted in Hawaii. This legislation allows such research only when the "state department of public safety issues a controlled substance registration, and the United States Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration issues a federally-controlled substance registration for research on the agronomic potential of industrial hemp." This legislation defines industrial hemp as "marijuana that contains 0.3 percent or less of THC." An initial test plot of industrial hemp was cultivated in accordance with this law in spring 2000.
Year Passed: 1996
Summary: The Hawaii Legislature approved House Resolution 71 and House Concurrent Resolution 63 resolving "to conduct a study on the economic potential, problems, and other related matters of growing nonpsychoactive industrial cannabis hemp as an agricultural product in Hawaii." The state study was completed in January 1997.
Illinois
Laws and Resolutions Authorizing Hemp Research
Year Passed: 1999
Summary: The Illinois Senate approved Senate Resolution 49 establishing a task force to "study the economic viability of industrial hemp
and report its findings and recommendations to the Illinois Senate." The state study was completed in January 2000.
Kentucky
Laws and Resolutions Authorizing Hemp Research
Year Passed: 2001
Summary: The Kentucky Legislature approved House Bill 100 establishing an industrial hemp research program to study hemp as an agricultural product in Kentucky. This legislation creates an industrial hemp commission to monitor the program, issue a report, and make recommendations to the Governor. This state study remains ongoing.
Maine
Laws and Resolutions Authorizing Hemp Research
Year Passed: 2003
Summary: The Maine Legislature approved L.D. 53 directing the Maine Department of Agriculture to "develop a study to explore the feasibility and desirability of industrial hemp production." The legislation requires the Commissioner of Agriculture to "obtain all federal permits necessary to legally grow hemp for fiber or seed production prior to importing any nonsterilized industrial hemp seeds capable of germination into the State." This study remains ongoing.
Maryland
Laws and Resolutions Authorizing Hemp Research
Year Passed: 2000
Summary: The Maryland Legislature approved House Bill 1250 establishing a four and one-half year industrial hemp research program to study the growth and marketing of hemp. This legislation requires the "Secretary of Agriculture to administer the pilot program in consultation with specified state and federal agencies
to ensure safe cultivation of industrial hemp." This legislation also establishes licensing procedures for researchers who wish to grow hemp for research purposes. This state study remains ongoing.
Michigan
Laws and Resolutions Authorizing Hemp Research
Minnesota
Laws and Resolutions Authorizing Hemp Research
Year Passed: 1999
Summary: The Minnesota Legislature approved language in the House Omnibus State Government Finance Bill mandating the Governor, in consultation with the commissioners of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Trade and Economic Development to submit an application for federal permits to authorize the growing of experimental and demonstration plots of industrial hemp. This legislation also directs the commissioners to establish standards and procedures for researchers who wish to grow hemp for research purposes.
Montana
Laws Authorizing Commercial Hemp Cultivation
Year Passed: 2001
Summary: The Montana Legislature approved Senate Bill 261 recognizing industrial hemp having no more than 0.3 percent THC as an "agricultural crop." This legislation also establishes licensing procedures to allow local farmers to grow hemp commercially. An amendment to the bill requests the federal government to issue a "waiver that will allow this act to be effective without federal preemption."
New Mexico
Laws and Resolutions Authorizing Hemp Research
Year Passed: 2007
Summary: House Memorial 49 requests the New Mexico State University Board of Regents to study the viability of industrial hemp farming in the state, and urges Congress "to recognize industrial hemp as a valuable agricultural commodity, to define industrial hemp in federal law as a non-psychoactive and genetically identifiable species of the genus Cannabis, and acknowledge that allowing and encouraging farmers to produce industrial hemp will improve the balance of trade by promoting domestic sources of industrial hemp and can make a positive contribution to the issues of global climate change and carbon sequestration."
North Carolina
Laws and Resolutions Authorizing Hemp Research
Year Passed: 2006
Summary: The North Carolina Legislature approved the Beneficial Uses of Industrial Hemp Act which creates a commission to study the "economic opportunities industrial hemp provides to the state and to consider the desirability and feasability of authorizing industrial hemp cultivation and production as a farm product in North Carolina." The commission will report its findings and recommendations to the 2007 General Assembly and the Environmental Review Commission by December 1, 2006.
North Dakota
Laws Authorizing Commercial Hemp Cultivation
Year Passed: 1999
Summary: The North Dakota Legislature approved House Bill 1428 recognizing industrial hemp having no more than 0.3 percent THC as an "oilseed." This legislation also establishes licensing procedures to allow local farmers to grow hemp commercially. Applicants must complete a criminal history check, and any person with a prior criminal conviction is not eligible for licensure. (See North Dakota Hemp Research Law.)
Laws and Resolutions Authorizing Hemp Research
Year Passed: 1997
Summary: The North Dakota Legislature approved House Bill 1305 "to provide for a study of industrial hemp production by the [state] agricultural experimental station." The state study was completed in July 1998.
Oregon
Laws Authorizing Commercial Hemp Cultivation
Year Passed: 2009
Summary: The Oregon Legislature approved Senate Bill 676 which "Permits production and possession of industrial hemp and trade in industrial hemp commodities and products."
Vermont
Laws Authorizing Commercial Hemp Cultivation
Year Passed: 2008
Summary: The Vermont Legislature approved House Bill 267 which establish[es] policy and procedures for growing industrial hemp in Vermont so that farmers and other businesses in the Vermont agricultural industry can take advantage of this market opportunity. However, farmers will not be able to legally grow hemp under the law until such time as the United States Congress amends the definition of "marihuana" for the purposes of the Controlled Substances Act.
Laws and Resolutions Authorizing Hemp Research
Year Passed: 1996
Summary: The Vermont Legislature approved House Bill 783 authorizing "the commissioner of agriculture, food and markets, and the University of Vermont [to] undertake research
of industrial hemp production in the state." The state study was completed in January 1997.
Virginia
Laws and Resolutions Authorizing Hemp Research
Year Passed: 1999
Summary: The Virginia Legislature approved House Joint Resolution 94 "memorializing the United States Secretary of Agriculture, the Director of the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy to permit the controlled, experimental cultivation of industrial hemp in Virginia."
West Virginia
Laws Authorizing Commercial Hemp Cultivation
Year Passed: 2002
Summary: The West Virginia Legislature approved Senate Bill 447 recognizing industrial hemp having no more than 1 percent THC as an "agricultural crop." This legislation also establishes licensing procedures to allow local farmers to "plant, grow, harvest, possess, process [and] sell" hemp commercially.
Laws and Resolutions Authorizing Hemp Research
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