REPORT TITLE:

Industrial hemp research

DESCRIPTION:

Defines "industrial hemp." Authorizes the State to allow privately-funded industrial hemp research in Hawaii when the department of public safety (DPS) issues a controlled substance registration, and the U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), issues a federally-controlled substance registration for research on the agronomic potential of industrial hemp. Authorizes DPS, in cooperation with the DEA and the appropriate county law enforcement agency, to monitor all phases of the research. Makes it an affirmative defense to a prosecution for the possession or cultivation of marijuana that the defendant was conducting industrial hemp research pursuant to this bill and the defendant had valid controlled substance registrations. (HB32 CD1)