Washington state, Wyoming get hemp oversight plans OK’d by feds

Washington state and Wyoming are the latest states to get approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to run their own hemp oversight.

The USDA also approved three American Indian Tribes:

• the Otoe-Missouria Tribe
• the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation and
• the Santee Sioux Nation.

The 2018 Farm Bill said that states and tribes could run their own hemp oversight – but only with approval of the USDA. It took 10 months to come up with the baseline for what rules should look like and start approving state plans

Requirements include the collection of geographic data on hemp producers and a plan to destroy any hemp that exceeds the federal limit of 0.3% THC.