

The OISC informed the cooperative of what the seller had done, but they could never directly contact the seller.

"My office tracked the seller down, and we found that they were selling seeds through a seed selling cooperative," Robison says. After several weeks and an unjustifiable response, the OISC got involved. When the grower realized the seller sold them cannabis seeds instead of hemp seeds, they tried to contact the seller. "The untrusted seller sold him cannabis seeds instead, and Indiana is not a cannabis legal state." "We had a recent situation where a grower in Indiana who wanted to grow hemp bought seeds from an untrusted supplier in California," Robison tells Hemp Grower. As the year continued, more reports started to emerge, driving the OISC to issue a warning early this year. The Office of Indiana State Chemist (OISC) is warning growers to be aware of active untrustworthy hempseed suppliers not just in Indiana, but also throughout the country.ĭonald Robison, an OISC seed administrator, expressed that the OISC received its first reported issues of unreputable hemp suppliers in Indiana in spring 2020.
