USDA to ease rules on hemp labs and destroying ‘hot’ crops

The government will allow farmers to destroy “hot” hemp fields themselves, rather than having to hire a contractor to do it, and it will expand the number of laboratories that can test industrial hemp for THC levels, said Agriculture Undersecretary Greg Ibach on Wednesday. Ibach told state agriculture officials that new guidelines would be released… » Read More

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