A company has filed a lawsuit against Idaho State Police and Ada County after authorities seized nearly 7,000 pounds of cannabis from a truck headed to Colorado, the Idaho Statesman reported.
Authorities who stopped the truck said it was filled with marijuana, but Big Sky Scientific, which was shipping the product to Colorado, said in the lawsuit that it’s industrial hemp, which is now legal under the recently passed U.S. Farm Bill.
Hemp is a non-psychoactive cousin of marijuana. Both hemp and marijuana are cannabis plants.
Big Sky wants its product returned and wants an admission of wrongdoing from the Idaho authorities.
The truck was stopped on Jan. 24 as part of a routine, random commercial vehicle safety inspection between Boise and Mountain Home. The driver’s bill of lading — a document that details the cargo in the shipment — said the trailer was carrying 31 bags of hemp.
An initial test by ISP indicated the bags were marijuana, and a K-9 Unit also detected pot.
Testing on the plant matter is being expedited to determine the level of THC.
Regardless, ISP says transporting anything containing THC is a chargeable offense in Idaho. (AP)
