Wisconsin is making Hemp History as farmers harvest their first hemp crop in decades.
It had been fifty years since Wisconsin farmers last cultivated hemp, but a law implemented by state legislators late last year, introduced permits for farmers to grow industrial hemp once again.
The new hemp law includes rigid guidelines to prevent farmers from blending marijuana plants into their hemp fields. In addition, farmers must renew their growing permit annually.
Because of the stigma attached to hemp, it’s been an ongoing battle to get it recognised and legalised. The stigma is the result of misinformation about hemp and marijuana.
Though biologically related to marijuana, hemp is a different variety that lacks the psychoactive effects of its cousin. Where marijuana usually has a tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) level of 10 to 20 percent, industrial hemp contains less than 0.3.
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