New York Farmers Can Switch From Hemp to Cannabis This Season

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Author Aleph One
23 February 2022
A new bill allows licensed hemp farmers to grow psychoactive cannabis ahead of the start of legal sales next year.
23 February 2022
7 min read
New York Farmers Can Switch From Hemp to Cannabis This Season

New York’s governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill that will help stock the future recreational shops with cannabis grown within the state. The current holders of licenses to grow hemp can now apply for permission to cultivate the psychoactive cannabis as well as process and cell it.

It’s been almost a year since New York state legalized recreational cannabis. However, the first adult-use shops are yet to open as officials still hammer out the details of the future legal market. The sales are expected to begin next year.

Local Farmers Prioritized

Thanks to the new legislation, the first cannabis seeds can be put in the ground this spring. Although the details of the licensing process are not yet finalized, the bill allows applying for provisional, two-year licenses. The aim is not to start the coming season of legal sales with shortages in the supply.

According to the law, a temporary license can only be given to those businesses that are registered as hemp growers by the Department of Agriculture and have in fact grown hemp for at least two seasons. Another demand is that a farmer uses sustainable and environmentally friendly practices.


New York Farmers Can Switch From Hemp to Cannabis This Season: A man in a hat and farmer's clothes posing in a hemp field

Some local farmers in New York state have 4 years of experience growin hemp.

Equitable and Inclusive

There have been several similar initiatives to resolve the issue of cannabis cultivation for the future adult-use cannabis market, but New York’s lawmakers adopted this particular proposal because of its strong social equity content.

The bill aims to help communities that have been hit especially hard by the war on drugs. This mostly means Blacks and other ethnic minorities who were suffering higher arrest, conviction, and incarceration rates despite the same rates in the use of marijuana as Whites.

Under the new bill, farmers who will be given licenses will be obligated to mentor would-be cannabis entrepreneurs and employees from underprivileged groups.

 

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