Industrial Hemp In Colorado

Erik Hunter, Ph.D.

www.capecodhemp.com Lecture Presented to Hemp Industries Association

Conference on 11/17/2013

CO State Senator Lloyd Casey

http://www.lloydcasey.com/

Colorado Hemp Production Act of 1995 Defined hemp as < 1% THC CBD% = or > THC % Licensing by CO Dept of Agriculture Dept of Ag certifies planting seed Approved cultivars only Hemp fields inspected twice per season >1% THC crop destroyed at farmer’s expense No criminal prosecution if < 1.4% THC

Colorado Hemp Bills February 9, 1995 - Hearing on SB-132, the Colorado Hemp Production Act

From Special Agent in Charge Philip W. Perry: The Drug Enforcement Administration's views on Senate Bill 95-132 its passage would send a harmful and dysfunctional message to the people of the State of Colorado Enactment of this legislation would add the force of a Colorado statute to the perception that marijuana is "OK.” Calling it "hemp" on the basis of an artificial threshold level of psychoactive ingredient does not erase the fact that it is botanically and legally the same plant. This legislation is no more than a shallow ruse being advanced by those who seek to legalize marijuana. The people of Colorado deserve to be protected from this sort of subterfuge.

http://www.levellers.org/cohip/PAGES/GROUP/GRPHIST.HTM

Colorado Hemp Bills Dear Mr. Perry: ..My expectation was that the D.E.A. would accord me the courtesy of two or three hours....Your words, arriving by fax just 2 1/2 hours prior to the committee vote, are arrogant and insulting. You have been on the taxpayer's payroll for so long, you have become like many bureaucrats who have forgotten the basic employer - employee relationship. You are the employee and the taxpayers are the employer. I believe my 68 years, which includes WWII service on a destroyer in the South Pacific, a master's degree in Theology, seven children, twelve grandchildren and forty-six years of community service, makes me an expert in recognizing a shallow person playing the role of a bureaucratic big shot. Sincerely, Lloyd Casey State Senator

Colorado Hemp Bills

"Concerning the recognition of industrial hemp as a valuable agricultural commodity, and, in connection therewith, urging Congress to clarify the federal definition of industrial hemp, facilitate domestic production of industrial hemp, and remove barriers to state regulation of the production of industrial hemp.” "Industrial hemp is a high-value, low-input crop..." and "...can be dry land-farmed, and uses less fertilizer than wheat and corn..." and "...Industrial hemp provides a practical transition to sustainable agricultural practices and the conservation of precious groundwater resources in the state."

House Joint Resolution 10-1027

http://www.examiner.com/article/colorado-s-legislation-hjr10-1027-industrial-hemp-resolution

House Local Affairs Committee Hearing for HB 12-1099 (2-13-2012)

Colorado Hemp Bills

Industrial Hemp Remediation Pilot Program

Average copper uptake per plant 1.5 X 10-4 grams copper. (78 cm height) Extrapolating to plants grown in the field (average height 150 cm), each plant grown outdoors should accumulate 2.9 X 10-4

grams copper.

Amendment 64

MARIHUANA” DOES NOT INCLUDE INDUSTRIAL HEMP, NOR DOES IT INCLUDE FIBER PRODUCED FROM THE STALKS, OIL, OR CAKE MADE FROM THE SEEDS OF THE PLANT, STERILIZED SEED OF THE PLANT WHICH IS INCAPABLE OF GERMINATION, OR THE WEIGHT OF ANY OTHER INGREDIENT COMBINED WITH MARIJUANA TO PREPARE TOPICAL OR ORAL ADMINISTRATIONS, FOOD, DRINK, OR OTHER PRODUCT.

Amendment 64

NOT LATER THAN JULY 1, 2014, THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SHALL ENACT LEGISLATION GOVERNING THE CULTIVATION, PROCESSING AND SALE OF INDUSTRIAL HEMP “INDUSTRIAL HEMP” MEANS THE PLANT OF THE GENUS CANNABIS AND ANY PART OF SUCH PLANT, WHETHER GROWING OR NOT, WITH A DELTA-9 TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL CONCENTRATION THAT DOES NOT EXCEED THREE-TENTHS PERCENT ON A DRY WEIGHT BASIS.

SB 13-241 Repealed the industrial hemp remediation pilot program in the Department of Public Health and Environment. Replaced the pilot program with a program in the Department of Agriculture Renamed the Industrial Hemp Remediation Pilot Program Committee, established pursuant to House Bill 12-1099, as the Industrial Hemp Committee. Requires a person seeking to engage in industrial hemp cultivation for commercial purposes or to grow industrial hemp for research and development purposes to register with the department. The commissioner is to develop rules requiring registrants to submit crop samplings for testing and verification of delta-9 THC levels and establishing a process for waiving delta-9 THC limits.

Hemp Lobby Day 3/20/13

Loveland Hemp Symposium 3/21/13

Senate Bill 13-241 Signing Ceremony - 5/28/2013

Hemp Harvest 2013

★ Springfield

Loflin Farm

GPS Data - 3.5 Acres

SW Corner 6 Plants/m2

NW Corner <1 Plants m2

‘Short Plants’ vs. ‘Tall Plants’ (85 cm) (142 cm)

Yield – ‘Short’ Plants vs. ‘Tall’ Plants

Dry yield per plant < 1 m ‘short’ plants grams

flowers 2.4 seed 3.1 roots 1.0 stalks 5.5 total 12.0

Dry yield fraction < 1 m ‘short’ plants %

flowers 20 seed 26 roots 8 stalks 46

Dry yield per plant > 1 m ‘tall’ plant grams

flowers 8.2

seed 12.5

roots 7.7

stalks 22.7

total 51.1

Dry yield fraction > 1 m ‘tall’ plants %

flowers 16

seed 24

roots 16

stalks 44

Seed-tistics

Seeds/Gram TGW g / cc

Loflin 59 16.9 g 0.45

"English" 75 13.3 g 0.47

Questions?

ehunter@capecodhemp.com