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From: Donna Bayliss <donnab@baylissranch.com>
Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 4:17 PM
To: Clerk of the Board
Subject: Fwd: Industrial Hemp letter to Butte county Supervisors.
Attachments: Letter to Butte County Supervisors-Industrial Hemp definition.pdf; ATT00001.htm
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Dear Butte County Supervisors,
I am most grateful for your recent unanimous support of my plans for an industrial
hemp research pilot project here in Butte County.
I have since been advised that there is an impediment to moving forward due to the
way that Butte County code Chapter 34A and 34B are written. Specifically, there is
no language that allows for industrial hemp to be distinguished from, and therefore
excluded from, the same rules as those applying to cannabis cultivated for medicinal
or adult use.
I ask that you consider adding this one line to the language of both 34A and 34C so
that I can assure potential partners and research institutions that we are not at risk of
being prosecuted under the cannabis rules.
"For the purpose of this chapter, "marijuana" or "cannabis" does not mean industrial
hemp as that term is defined by Section 81000 of the California Food and Agricultural
Code or Section 11018.5 of the California Health and Safety Code."
For your reference, here is that definition:
HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE - HSC
DIVISION 10. UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT [11000 - 116511
(DIVISION 10 REPEALED AND ADDED BY STATS. 1972, CH. 1407. )
CHAPTER 1. General Provisions and Definitions [11000 - 110331
( Chapter 1 added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407. )
11018.5.
(a) "Industrial hemp" means a fiber or oilseed crop, or both, that is limited to types
of the plant Cannabis sativa L. having no more than three-tenths of 1 percent
tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) contained in the dried flowering tops, whether growing or
not; the seeds of the plant; the resin extracted from any part of the plant; and every
compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its
seeds or resin produced therefrom.
Thank you for your support, and your consideration of this matter.
Regards,
Donna Bayliss
P.O. BOX 367 - HIGHWAY 99E . RIO BONITO ROAD • BIGGS: CA 95917 -(73G.' 855 =56
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