05/17/2023
"Across the aisle, the question of how to handle the production of industrial h**p, a newly legalized crop, is on legislators' minds. As the 2023 Farm Bill begins to come into focus, this carbon-sequestering plant has the potential to reshape U.S. agriculture.
H**p absorbs twice as much carbon per hectare of land than a forest does, and h**p-derived products can be used to replace paper, petroleum-based plastics, and cotton fibers. But h**p, a strain of the Cannabis plant (from which ma*****na is derived), was previously considered a Schedule I substance—the most highly regulated narcotics under the Controlled Substances Act.
The 2014 Farm Bill (P.L. 113-179) legally distinguished h**p from ma*****na by defining h**p as having a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) level below 0.3 percent, which is insufficient to produce narcotics. But it limited h**p cultivation to research purposes only. The 2018 Farm Bill (P.L. 115-334) relaxed many restrictions and established the Domestic H**p Production Program, making it easier for farmers to grow and sell h**p. The legalization of h**p cultivation in the United States has allowed farmers to employ the crop to promote sustainable farming practices and produce sustainable alternatives to plastics and other materials." (By Lynlee Derrick)
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