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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 South Dakota Committee Passes Bill to Legalize Commercial Hemp Farming and Production 🌿South Dakota Committee Passes Bill to Legalize Commercial Hemp Farming and Production
PIERRE, S.D. (Feb. 2, 2016) A bill passed today by a South Dakota House committee would legalize the production and processing of industrial hemp for commercial purposes in the state, setting the foundation for people there to nullify federal prohibition in practice.
Rep. Mike Verchio (R-Hill City) along with a bipartisan coalition of 39 cosponsors introduced House Bill 1054 (HB1054) earlier in the month. It passed the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee by a vote of 11-2.
If passed into law, the bill would legalize the cultivation and processing of industrial hemp for commercial purposes in South Dakota. If reads, in part:
Upon meeting the requirements of sections 2 to 6, inclusive, of this Act, any person in this state may plant, grow, harvest, possess, process, sell, and buy industrial hemp (cannabis sativa l.) having no more than three-tenths of one percent tetrahydrocannabinol.
The bill would create a licensing...
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