Leafly Reports: Drivers Driving CBD and Hemp Cross Country Are Being Stopped And Arrested For Carrying Legal Hemp

From Legal Hemp Is Not Safe on American Highways:

Hemp might be federally legal in the 2018 US farm bill and in states like Oregon—but hemp remains illegal in Idaho and other conservative states.

That legal schism is making for quite the mess across the US.

Despite new national law, hemp’s held up just like its psychoactive cousin, cannabis.

 

The US hemp market is booming and could reach a $10.6 billion valuation by 2025, according to recent estimates. But farms and companies attempting to ship hemp legally are having their drivers arrested and shipments confiscated right and left this year.

Now state lawmakers, police, the hemp industry, and consumers are all struggling to make sense of divergent law. And it could take years to iron it all out.

Read the full article from Leafly here