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Nebraska hemp bill receives first-round approval
Apr 16, 2019, 15:36 PM
by
Ann Gregson
Photo courtesy University of Kentucky
A bill to legalize industrial hemp in Nebraska has won first-round approval in the state legislature.
The Nebraska Hemp Act would set up licensing and fee requirements for farmers who wish to grow hemp and outline reporting and enforcement requirements by the Nebraska Department of Agriculture. It would also create a hemp checkoff program, like other commodity checkoff programs in the state.
Hemp crops would have to be registered with a GPS location and plants grown must be submitted for testing to determine they contain less than 0.3 percent THC, the psychoactive drug in marijuana.
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