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Without question, growers are cultivating unlicensed marijuana in southern Oregon and shipping it across the United States. They have been for decades.
But are they organized criminal operations operating outside the law, or are they fronting as licensed hemp growers under cover of the boom in new grows that sprung up after the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill?
That’s what state regulators in Oregon are trying to determine through a new program that is believed to be among the first of its kind in the cannabis industry.
Regulators have started on the southern end of the state to inspect dozens of hemp farms and determine whether they are legitimate businesses – or rogue operators secretly growing marijuana.
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