Las Vegas, NV, Jan. 31, 2022, 1st Hemp USA‘s spokesman and owner of Inspirational Technologies, a Health, Wellness and Beauty Company, Steven Smith congratulates Idaho on being the 50th state to legalize industrial hemp. “Inspirational Technologies” owner Steven Smith said that “1st Hemp USA’s News Outlet to the Media is by way of InspirationalTech.org and we are proud to have been promoting the legalization, from all states, since the 2018 Farm Bill was sign into legalization in late December 2018.
4 Hemp Club
“We Now We Have a Grown Up 4-Hemp Club” – said Steven Smith, who implemented the “4 Hemp Club” in his company rollout. All States had to comply in some fashion to this Government Legislation with a plan and implementation. Now that the deals have all been done, it’s time to analyze, just what has each state accomplished.
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Thanks to House Bill No. 26 passing in Idaho’s April 2021 legislature, with an emergency clause that made the law effective as soon as it passed both chambers of the Legislature, approved farmers are now receiving their hemp licenses so that they can legally “produce and handle the crop during this growing season for commodities such as insulation, paper, oil and food products.” According to the news source, Idaho took a very “methodical and diligent approach” to what it would mean for the state to legalize the crop. Coupled, both of these factors are expected to result in the increased demand for high-quality cosmetics, personal care products, protein supplements, and other health food products, and are expected to drive the market over the projected period
Idaho’s industrial hemp legalization gives its farmers an opportunity to diversify their operations, potentially creating more opportunities to do business with other companies in the industry. Idaho Farm Bureau’s deputy government affairs director, Braden Jensen, said the Bureau has been “pushing for the policy change for the better part of the past 20 years, but the 2018 Federal Farm Bill that removed hemp from the controlled substances list made the issue a priority in the 2021 legislative session.” Idaho now has two licensing options for its farmers (handlers and producers). Licensed handlers are allowed to process raw hemp materials into other materials, but they can’t grow the crop. Licensed producers can grow and market the hemp crop.
Both licenses will require a background check on its owner that has to be renewed annually and producers will have their hemp lots tested for acceptable levels of THC (below 0.3%). If any sample of the lot tests higher than this threshold, the entire crop will either be destroyed or blended with a different strain to lower the THC amount. The news source said the state had about 60 applications in November of 2021 and as of today, 8 have been fully granted (4 handlers, 3 producers, 1 handler/producer). For those granted licenses, the news could not have come at a better time. The industrial hemp market is growing exponentially. A new report by Grand View Research, Inc. (October 2021) noted the global industrial hemp market is expected to reach 12.01 billion by 2028
Twenty Years In The Making
Idaho Farm Bureau’s deputy government affairs director, Braden Jensen said the Bureau has been “pushing for the policy change for the better part of the past 20 years, but the 2018 Federal Farm Bill that removed hemp from the controlled substances list made the issue a priority in the 2021 legislative session.”
New Licensing System
Idaho now has two licensing options for its farmers (handlers and producers). Licensed handlers are allowed to process raw hemp materials into other materials but they can’t grow the crop. Licensed producers can grow and market the hemp crop. Both licenses will require background checks that will need to be renewed annually and producers will have their hemp lots tested for acceptable levels of THC (below 0.3%). 1st Hemp USA News