Source: Brooke Conrad, INDEPENDENT TRIBUNE, 11/19/19

 Justin Hamilton’s company farm last year lost an entire greenhouse of hemp — somewhere between $25,000 and $35,000 — because his crop violated the state’s tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) threshold by 0.1 percent. The crops of at least 38 other North Carolina hemp farmers were destroyed over the past two years after farmers inadvertently overstepped the 0.3 percent THC standard, records from the N.C. Department of Agriculture’s Plant Industry Division show. In many cases, crops exceeded the limit by mere tenths of a percent.

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