Edgecombe County deputies monitoring hemp fields amid arrests
Story Date: 9/25/2017

 

Source: WTVD, 9/21/17

The Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office has a message for would-be hemp thieves: it won’t get you high! “I would never in a million years think I’d be talking about this,” said Sheriff Cleveland Atkinson. That’s after deputies have charged multiple people with stealing – or attempting to steal – hemp from a field. Industrial Hemp is not marijuana.

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