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New information released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has revealed that although the agency recently denied canna-legal states’ requests to approve pesticides for use on canabis, officials may be open to allowing these same pesticides to be used on industrial hemp, reports Marijuana Moment. This June, officials in California, Washington, Nevada, and Vermont applied to the EPA to register four new pesticides created specifically for cannabis crops, but all were denied.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt wrote a letter to these four states explaining that he denied their requests because marijuana is still a federally prohibited drug. “Under federal law, cultivation (along with sale and use) of cannabis is generally unlawful as a schedule I controlled substance under the Controlled Substances Act,” Pruitt wrote to officials in Nevada. “The EPA finds that the general illegality of cannabis cultivation makes pesticide use on cannabis a fundamentally different use pattern.”
The Nevada Department of Agriculture argued that their request should be granted because federal law allows states to register new uses of…
