Colorado State University\u2019s experimental research station in Yellow Jacket has the green light to grow and study industrial hemp varieties this spring, according to CSU officials.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the 2015 CSU Southwestern Colorado Research Center advisory committee meeting, Jeff Steiner, associate dean of research and deputy director of the station, said the department has a legal framework for the studies.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to have research plots with industrial hemp \u2013 one in at the station north of Fort Collins and one here at Yellow Jacket,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Industrial hemp research was authorized under the 2014 Farm Bill, but the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency still classifies hemp as a Schedule I narcotic, along with heroin, ecstasy, mescaline and other drugs. Because of the disconnect between the DEA and the USDA and getting viable seeds to researchers, academic studies were difficult.<\/p>\n
The Colorado study is just one part of a larger research effort with a European university, Steiner said. John McKay, professor and plant genetic researcher at CSU\u2019s main campus in Fort Collins, is working with the European partner on obtaining seeds. The Yellow Jacket study plot will be the southern-most point in the study, he said, which could provide some interesting data.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re really going to advance the science of what are these industrial hemp varieties and how different ranges of altitude and latitudes effect its growth,\u201d said Steiner.<\/p>\n
Abdel Berrada, director of the CSU Yellow Jacket research station, said the research station is eager and ready to get the study underway but cautions that until the research stations have seeds, nothing is set in stone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t have the seeds yet. We\u2019re hoping and doing everything to get what we need,\u201d said Berrada. \u201cWe have the plans, and we want to do this, to provide information, people are interested in industrial hemp.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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