IL Hemp Bill Passes Committee

by Gary Kopycinski on March 28, 2011

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Springfield, IL–(ENEWSPF)–March 28, 2011. The Illinois Industrial Hemp Act passed a House Agriculture and Conservation Committee by a vote of 11-2. The bill would allow farmers in Illinois to grow hemp once again and would define hemp as being varieties of the cannabis genus whose THC content is below 0.3%