Hemp in North Carolina

In 2017, hemp farming in North Carolina was restarted as Industrial Hemp Pilot Program. The regulated, experimental program was authorized by state law conforming to the Federal 2014 Farm Bill's provisions for U.S. hemp production. In 2017, {{convert|1000|acre}} of hemp were grown in the state.{{citation|title=Hemp's first year on North Carolina farms wraps up, a lot was learned|author=John Hart|date=December 6, 2017|newspaper=Southeast Farm Press|url=http://www.southeastfarmpress.com/crops/hemp-s-first-year-north-carolina-farms-wraps-lot-was-learned}} The planting was late due to DEA's refusal to allow transportation of U.S. hemp seed and non-issuance of a permit to import $200,000 of seed the state agriculture bought from Italian suppliers;{{citation|newspaper=The News & Observer|location=Raleigh, NC|title=NC hemp commission considers joining lawsuit against DEA|author=Rachel Chason|date=April 4, 2017 |url=http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article142568559.html}}{{citation|title=DEA holds up industrial hemp in North Carolina|date=April 26, 2017 |author=Nick Wilson|newspaper=Mountain Xpress|url=https://mountainx.com/news/dea-holds-up-industrial-hemp/}} instead,

with a letter of authorization from the state Attorney General,

two individuals drove a truck to Colorado and back with live plants for the state's first crop.{{citation|title=WNC hemp crop is in the ground|date=June 24, 2017 |author=Nick Wilson|newspaper=Mountain Xpress|url=https://mountainx.com/news/wnc-hemp-crop-is-in-the-ground/}} The late planting and high heat were blamed by at least one farmer for loss of 95% of the 2017 crop.{{citation|title=I-Team: Farmers still high on hemp after first-year struggles| author=Jonah Kaplan|publisher=WTVD News|location=Raleigh, NC|date=November 22, 2017|url=http://abc11.com/business/i-team-farmers-still-high-on-hemp-after-first-year-struggles/2684258/}}

The first processing facility for state-grown hemp opened at Asheboro in September 2017, producing dehulled seed, oil and CBD.{{citation|work=Yes! Weekly|title=North Carolina's first hemp processing facility to open in Asheboro|author=Katie Murawski|date=September 20, 2017|url=http://yesweekly.com/north-carolinas-first-hemp-processing-facility-to-open-in-asheboro/}}

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{{citation|title=Why is hemp farming so popular? Another state wants to find out|newspaper=The Virginian-Pilot|via=The Cannabist (The Denver Post)|date= March 14, 2017|author=Jeff Hampton|url=https://www.thecannabist.co/2017/03/14/north-carolina-hemp-growing-program/75314/}}

{{citation|work=High Times|title=North Carolina Is Harvesting Its First Legal Hemp Crop in Decades|date=September 25, 2017 |author=A.J. Herrington

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• {{citation|title=Industrial hemp in North Carolina|publisher=North Carolina Cooperative Extension|author1=William Landis |author2=Ginny Moore |date=February 2018|url=https://franklin.ces.ncsu.edu/2018/02/industrial-hemp-in-north-carolina/}}
• {{citation|work=The National Law Review|title=The Legal Commercialization of Industrial Hemp in North Carolina|date=February 25, 2018|author=James W. Norment|url=https://www.natlawreview.com/article/legal-commercialization-industrial-hemp-north-carolina}}

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• [http://www.ncagr.gov/hemp/ Industrial Hemp Pilot Program in North Carolina], NC Department of Agriculture

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