A South Carolina farmer has filed a lawsuit against the state over the destruction of his hemp crop in 2019.
The suit, filed on September 16 by John Trenton Pendarvis, alleges that a trio of state agencies––the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, Department of Agriculture, and attorney general’s office––“all denied him due process after Department of Agriculture officials discovered unreported hemp crops during a check of his Dorchester County property on July 30, 2019,” according to the Associated Press.
The Associated Press reports that Pendarvis asserts in the complaint that he “filed an amendment application and said that extensive droughts
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