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DENVER (AP) — Colorado reached another national first on cannabis Wednesday when state agriculture officials showed off the first domestic certified hemp seeds. The Colorado Department of Agriculture has been working for years to produce hemp seeds that consistently produce plants low enough in the chemical THC to qualify as hemp and not its intoxicating cousin, marijuana. Hemp production was authorized by Congress in 2014. But farmers who want to grow it must have state certification to raise the crop. The industry estimates that fewer than 7,000 acres are being grown nationwide this year. Colorado says it has six varieties of certified seed, proven to be genetically pure and to produce hemp and not marijuana. Farmers in states that allow hemp production can buy the seeds in 2017.

Colorado hits another cannabis 1st with certified hemp seed