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Wyoming: Few expected to apply for hemp registration

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 07/29/2015 - 05:52

SHERIDAN — As Sheridan and Wyoming residents have the opportunity to apply for hemp extract registration cards, questions over similarities between hemp and marijuana arise. Cards will provide qualifying individuals with intractable epilepsy to treat their symptoms with hemp.

Coming from Cannabis Sativa — a plant typically used for industrial purposes — it carries only trace amount of Tetrahydro-cannabinol, the principal psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. Products being made from hemp must contain less than 0.3 percent THC in order to be legally sold in Wyoming.

Hemp products — such as ropes and fabrics — are manufactured from the male plant while medical and recreational uses of marijuana come from the female plant.

Kim Deti of the Wyoming Department of Health, said only 175 people will qualify for hemp cards and, likely, not everyone will pursue it.

“This is not something that people should expect to see a large amount of...

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