HONOLULU More than half of hemp crops cultivated in Hawaii in the past year were unusable due to high THC levels.
HONOLULU — More than half of hemp crops cultivated in Hawaii in the past year were unusable due to high THC levels.
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Monday that the crops cultivated for the state’s hemp industry tested above the federal limit for the chemical that causes people to become high.
The state Department of Agriculture says 18 crops were destroyed due to heightened tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC.
Officials granted waivers to four crops that tested slightly above the limit, allowing the plants to be used as hemp.
A cannabis plant is legally classified as hemp rather than marijuana if it contains 0.3% or less THC, which causes marijuana’s mind-altering effects.
An official says the large number of plants testing above the limit is part of a difficult research process for the nascent industry.
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Information from: Honolulu Star-Advertiser, http://www.staradvertiser.com
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Why did they have to destroy the crops? Hemp can be used for other things than food. Hemp cloth, brick additives, boards. They could have certified the crops for non-food use rather than just destroying them. Typical government wasteful policy. Too many rules, not enough common sense.
It is definitely ironic that the State has ordered the hemp crops to be destroyed for containing minute amounts of THC yet condones the chemical companies’ test fields which are poisoning the ground, the water, the people, the oceans and the coral at an alarming rate. I think the wrong crops are being burned.