In 2015 the Industrial Hemp Farming Act was introduced by a group of U.S Senators. The Act expanded the permission to produce and cultivate hemp to farmers outside of universities and research purposes that the 2014 Farm Bill allowed. This bill was important in that it gave the power to individual states to create their own hemp regulatory structure as long as they were reasonable within federal guidelines and made the following 2 distinctions
(1)The term ‘marihuana’ does not include industrial hemp.
(2) The term ‘industrial hemp’ means the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant, whether growing or not, with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.’’.
