Humboldt County’s ongoing prohibition of industrial hemp may continue for good if the Board of Supervisors decides next Tuesday that it wouldn’t be a smart move to legalize the crop.
Earlier this year, the board passed a moratorium on growing hemp commercially under the premise that the county’s staff would return with a set of proposed pot regulations. Several months later, the Planning and Building department did come up with a draft hemp ordinance.
But the Planning Commission decided last month to recommend that the board deny hemp the ordinance, throwing the future of hemp in Humboldt County into uncertainty. For staff members who spent months drawing up potential laws for the crop, the commissioners’ October vote came as a plot twist.
“When we started off, everybody was pro-hemp,” Planning and Building director John Ford told the Times-Standard. “At all the public meetings, it was pro-hemp."
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