The first person to be charged with unlawfully cultivating hemp under South Carolina’s Hemp Farming Act is suing several state agencies, alleging he wasn’t given due process before his crops were destroyed.
Farmer John Trenton Pendarvis filed a federal lawsuit against the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), the Department of Agriculture and the state attorney general’s office on Sept. 16, the Associated Press reported.
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According to the Sept. 16 lawsuit:
The South Carolina agriculture department discovered crops on unlicensed land in July 2019, and Pendarvis said he had filed an amendment application to move locations because of drought conditions. The Consumer Protection Division of the Agriculture Department said via email that Pendarvis’ action was a “willful violation” of state farming regulations. South Carolina Solicitor General Adam Cook called the state’s Hemp Farming Act “ultra murky” when it comes to dealing with unlicensed crops, but the
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