2020 North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 106 - Agriculture
Article 50E - Industrial Hemp.
§ 106-568.51 - Definitions.

106-568.51. Definitions.

The following definitions apply in this Article:

(1) Repealed by Session Laws 2018-113, s. 4, effective June 27, 2018.

(2) Commercial use. - The use of industrial hemp as a raw ingredient in the production of hemp products.

(3) Commission. - The North Carolina Industrial Hemp Commission created by this Article.

(4) Department. - The North Carolina Department of Agriculture.

(5) Grower. - Any person licensed to grow industrial hemp by the Commission pursuant to this Article.

(6) Hemp products. - All products made from industrial hemp, including, but not limited to, cloth, cordage, fiber, food, fuel, paint, paper, particleboard, plastics, seed, seed meal and seed oil for consumption, and verified propagules for cultivation if the seeds originate from industrial hemp varieties.

(7) Industrial hemp. - All parts and varieties of the plant Cannabis sativa (L.), cultivated or possessed by a grower licensed by the Commission, whether growing or not, that contain a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than three-tenths of one percent (0.3%) on a dry weight basis.

(7a) Industrial hemp research program. - The research program established pursuant to G.S. 106-568.53(1).

(7b) State land grant university. - North Carolina State University and North Carolina A&T State University.

(8) Tetrahydrocannabinol or THC. - The natural or synthetic equivalents of the substances contained in the plant, or in the resinous extractives of, cannabis, or any synthetic substances, compounds, salts, or derivatives of the plant or chemicals and their isomers with similar chemical structure and pharmacological activity.

(9) Verified propagule. - A seed or clone from an industrial hemp plant from which THC concentration samples have been tested by a qualified laboratory and confirmed as having a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration less than that adopted by federal law in the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. 801, et seq.