2017 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 19. AGRICULTURE.
ARTICLE 12E. INDUSTRIAL HEMP DEVELOPMENT ACT.
§19-12E-9. Defense for possession or cultivation of marijuana.

Universal Citation: WV Code § 19-12E-9 (2017)

(a) It is a complete defense to a prosecution for the possession or cultivation of marijuana pursuant to the provisions of article four, chapter sixty-a of this code that defendant was growing industrial hemp pursuant to the provisions of this article.

(b) This section is not a defense to a charge of criminal sale or distribution of marijuana as defined in chapter sixty-a of this code which does not meet the definition of industrial hemp.

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