If there’s one thing Idahoans know how to do well, it’s to stand up for what they believe in. Even if it comes down to the correct name of a plant. Yup.
Breaking News! Is marijauna (weed, hemp, cbd, cannabis) legal in Idaho? What this could mean for the future of the state and how it can be used, produced, and transported.
Called House Bill 126, this bill is the industrial hemp legalization bill. Idaho farmers, like many in other states are now able to grow hemp crops as well as process and transport the plant.
The gem state is the last state that has not legalized industrial hemp. On the federal level, it has been legal to grow hemp since 2018 farm bill passed. For Idaho, the house just voted in approval, now it goes on to the senate.
The continued action begs the question, "Why have so many state governments suddenly turned around on weed? Is it wrong for it to be legal in some states, but not in others? Some believe it is only a matter of time before weed is legal in all fifty states.