It is not yet legal to grow hemp in Idaho. The Idaho Farm Bureau Federation would administer the state’s hemp program.
At the behest of the Idaho Farm Bureau, the House Agriculture Committee has voted unanimously to introduce new legislation to legalize industrial hemp in Idaho, for production, processing, transportation and research. The vote clears the way for a full hearing on the bill, which supporters said they hope will settle years of debate about how to allow for industrial hemp production by Idaho agricultural producers without running afoul of concerns about hemp’s psychoactive cousin, marijuana.
Idaho is the last state in the nation to take this step; industrial hemp already is legal in 49 states and at the federal level.
Stay up to date on Idaho’s hemp program on their website.
