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Wyoming Pays $150,000 Settlement Over Hemp Seizures

Wyoming paid $150,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by hemp farmers whose crop was seized in 2019 because law enforcement wrongly suspected the plants were illegal cannabis plants, according to a WyoFile report. The mother-and-son hemp farmer duo, Debra Palm-Egle and Joshua Egle, faced drug trafficking charges including conspiracy to manufacture, deliver, or possess marijuana; […]