The task of testing hemp for for its primary psychoactive compound will now have to be handled by state inspectors rather than growers under a change in federal policy.

The S.C. Department of Agriculture has asked lawmakers for $1.6 million to hire staff, as well as pay for vehicles and travel, sampling equipment and laboratory costs.

The law mandates a hemp crop contain less than 0.3 percent tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, to be harvested. 

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