Amendment X would hurt small farmers
Amendment X takes the definition of hemp out of the constitution and may take away independent hemp farming. You might only get what the government arranges with lobbyists.
Right now, if I grow cannabis and it’s less than 0.3 percent THC, it’s hemp. There aren’t “approved” cultivars from “approved” providers spending lobbying dollars. Amendment X allows the Legislature to define hemp however it wishes and force farmers to go through approved channels. A statutory definition means legislators can regulate the little guy out of existence.
If they reduce limits to 0.00 percent, it would effectively hand hemp over to agri-tech giants that have resources to genetically modify cannabis cultivars to 0.00 percent. The average farmer cannot breed a varietal down so far. If that happens, say goodbye to the little guy.
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