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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 2. AGRICULTURE · Chapter 23. HEMP FARMING

2-23-2. Intent.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. The intent of this chapter is to:

  2. (1)

    Promote exploration of the cultivation and processing of hemp and the potential to open up new commercial markets for farmers and businesses through the sale of hemp products;#

  3. (2)

    Explore expansion of the state’s hemp industry and allow farmers and businesses to begin to cultivate, handle, and process hemp and sell hemp products for commercial purposes;#

  4. (3)

    Encourage and empower research into growing hemp and creating hemp products at universities and in the private sector;#

  5. (4)

    Ultimately move the state and its citizens to the forefront of the hemp industry;#

  6. (5)

    Balance the desire to explore the cultivation and processing of hemp with public health, safety, and welfare regarding the potential for unwanted and unlawful uses of chemical elements of hemp; and#

  7. (6)

    Enable the department, hemp grower licensees, and universities to promote the cultivation and processing of hemp and the commercial sale of hemp products.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 2-23-2, enacted by Ga. L. 2019, p. 1030, § 1/HB 213; Ga. L. 2024, p. 455, § 2/SB 494, effective October 1, 2024.

Amendments

The 2024 amendment, effective October 1, 2024, inserted “hemp grower” in paragraph (6).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t1-3-(v3)-pdf.pdf, Volume V3, 2019 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 77 to 78; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 19703c1bece5.