Hemp Plant Protection

Update-MOhemp has started and received Level 2 approval for the process to certify and protect a strain of Hemp that has been growing in Missouri with the USDA.

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Congratulations MOhemp,

You have successfully completed the necessary requirements to upgrade your USDA eAuthentication account to Level 2 access. You now have the ability to conduct official electronic business transactions online with the USDA. 

This strain of Hemp has been growing wild in Rural Missouri for many years. The Hemp strain maybe from when the USA government requested farmers to grow hemp long long long ago.

Could this stain of wild hemp be considered a Landrace
(Pure cannabis strains (also called landraces or purebreds) have developed in its natural environment and has never been crossed with any other strain but inbred through many, many generations. These varieties are very stable and present very few variations - if any - from one plant to another.) variety that may even go back to one of America's Founding Father Thomas Jefferson days?

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Its obvious that when Hemp was promoted on the $10 Bill this plant was important to the USA.

Something I learned from reading AMERICAN HEMP: The back of the original $10 Bill had a picture of farmers plowing #hemp! Happy #420day. I'm sure everyone in Canada is having the time of their lives right now. #amreading #Happy420 #cannabis #mmot #legalize #saturdaymorning pic.twitter.com/f1Vf3O3mH2

— Jesse Ventura (@GovJVentura) April 20, 2019

Jesse Ventura- The back of the original $10 Bill had a picture of farmers plowing #hemp

Here is where I learned about the USDA program that has updated the Plant Variety Protection system: Marketing New Plant Varieties by Protecting Plant Breeders' Innovations