I own a legal Cannabis farm in OK. It’s on 7 acres. It’s in current active operation. I’m wanting to dabble in the smokable Hemp market. Very small just to feed a few shops.
Can I grow hemp on the same property as I grow legal medical cannabis?
Does the hemp plants have to be registered with METRC tags since it’s on the same property?
If I have friends that own smoke shops in outside states, can my cannabis farm sell to them?
Can my future hemp soft-manufacturing shop (buys distillate and isolate and make vapes, lotions, and edibles) be ran on the same property of a hemp farm (this question is mainly for a pre-existing hemp only farm), can you process the hemp at the same location?
I would think: section off and do some due diligence on distancing, but if you are not intending to bring it to dispensaries I believe just your simple Licensing is needed. Metrc not involved. OBNDD however?
OBNDD I have to register and get a sponsor from an accredited college. But can I do that on same property as my legal grow? Or do I have to file and lease another property to do it?
Hi there. Hemp plants are cannabis plants. So yes you can grow them, they just might have less THC. If you are growing them in a space segregated and registered for growing marijuana (aka higher than 0.3% THC cannabis) then you ought to consider the cost of that space and add them into METRC. They are still available to sell to smoke shops, but will require the same level of due diligence and tracking.
If you want to grow hemp and not put it in dispensaries - then you need the Hemp License. There is a fee and you have to segregate and delineate the land on which you are going to grow the hemp. This is done with signage or something. You can do it outdoors or indoors and it costs you $5 per acre to license it for outdoor growing. Also - the rules don’t say anything about working with a university, I think that all changed in 2019 - you can ask them more about it: hemp@ag.ok.gov
Oklahoma technically points to the Medical Marijuana program if you want do so anything more than fiber/food seeds/oil. And it points you directly to the FDA page for all other products including topicals and other CBD products - which clearly says that these are illegal. Whether or not they enforce that is kind of up in the air.
You can get a license to sell seeds and plants if you want to go that route instead of selling flower.
In general - it seems you’ll have to follow the same testing regime for selling CBD flower to shops… and we’re seeing now that many states (although I haven’t seen any coming out of OK) are now requiring that all “hemp” products be traceable and recorded. This has always been the law, but now they are “enforcing” those laws with seizures and fines where people are not documenting appropriately.
In any case - the short story is yes you could delinate the land to grow hemp on. The long story is - would you really want to do that? Hemp enforcement is growing and the 2023 farm bill will change that landscape in at least some ways. Is this what you want to invest in today?
Personally - I grow some CBG and CBD flower in my licensed cannabis operation, because I want those products to be available and getting the documentation that the regulators require in Michigan has been a real pain in the ass. <3
Oklahoma has it’s own hemp program and licensing to “legally” be allowed to grow, process or Sell hemp products, it can be located on same premises as your licensed cannabis but not in same areas as your cannabis, when you apply for the license you will provide exact GPS coordinates for your designated hemp grow area and process area storage area ect, your licenses are good untill the end of the year, you must follow Oklahoma guidelines for inspection and apply for pre harvest testing 15 days prior to any harvest of hemp plants, you will need both a license to grow and one to process/extract, your extraction room will be held to the same level as any other lab and require a certified c1d1/c1d2 space for extraction and type 6 license from the lpg board to receive non oderized LPG gas and then whatever else your AHJ Demands which may be getting an OBN certification or filling out some forms for the ODAFF or informing your utilities suppliers ect.
Definitely don’t want to do extraction. Just making gummies and filling disposables and packaging.
My partner wants to grow the hemp in TX, then ship it to OK to get processed, then do the soft manufacturing at the hemp location, then ship it back to various shops. I really didn’t want to get another farm location and start that process over again.
So I’m guessing the best option is to just tag and grow the hemp with the crop I’m already growing, and get it tested and then I can sell the <.3% to any shop across the country?
You will need the Hemp processing license for any handling of Hemp products in Oklahoma including to make gummies and carts pre rolls ect, also If you tag them under metrc and grow it under a cannabis license Even if it tests under .3% thc you cant sell it outside of OMMA/Oklahoma Med program, and if you grow it without a hemp license it would not have a chain of custody and technically would be classified as unlicensed cannabis, it maybe federally compliant for THC but not state/fed compliant for the actual growth, id apply for hemp license and work with your local AHJ and go from there
rowing in texas is different than oklahoma. Requires different documents. Still need all extraction licensing in oklahoma though.
And try to remember texas is the most cannabis unfriendly state prosecuting more people each year for infractions including for hot hemp. Over 22000 people in 2022.
By processing, I mean packaging the flower. No extraction. Just will sell the non-vendable flower. To make gummies, I’ll just buy delta 8 distillate from a source on the forum. As well as the CBD and CBG etc etc.
I think I’ll just source the flower from a reliable source, and only set up a hemp soft-manufacturing next to my legal grow on a separate address. I won’t worry about growing the hemp.
rowing in texas is different than oklahoma. Requires different documents. Still need all extraction licensing in oklahoma though.