Approved Canadian Cultivars

Canadian Approved Hemp Cultivars

The situation in Canada; From Health Canada/Santé Canada, Jean Peart:

INDUSTRIAL HEMP REGULATIONS

1998 GROWING SEASON Cannabis Sativa

(a) The following cultivars, Industrial Hemp varieties eligible for certification in the OECD List of Cultivars Eligible for Certification 1997, are approved for commercial cultivation in the 1998 growing season.

VARIETY	COUNTRY WHERE MAINTAINED
C S	Italy
Carmagnola	Italy
Fedora 19	France
Fedrina 74	France
Felina 34	France
Ferimon	France
Fibranova	Italy
Fibriko	Hungary
Fibrimon 24	France
Fibrimon 56	France
Futura	France
Irene	Romania
Kompolti	Hungary
Kompolti Hibrid TC	Hungary
Kompolti Sargaszaru	Hungary
Lovrin 110	Romania
Secuieni 1	Romania
Uniko B	Hungary

(b) The following cultivars (varieties) are approved for commercial cultivation in the 1998 growing season. Inclusion was based on their performance in the countries of origin or official information regarding varietal performance, performance data provided by the Breeder, or Variety Maintainer and/or Canadian research data.

VARIETY	COUNTRY WHERE MAINTAINED
Fasamo	Germany
FIN 314	Finland
USO 11	Ukraine
USO 13	Ukraine
USO 15	Ukraine
Zolotonosha 11	Ukraine
Zolotonosha 13	Ukraine
Zolotonosha 15	Ukraine

PLEASE NOTE:

The 1998 List of Approved Cultivars is amended, to include all varieties on the current OECD list.

Secuieni 1 and Irene have been included in the amended list. Fasamo and Zolotonosha 15 have also been added to the list.

Additional testing requirements will be imposed as a condition of licensing in 1998 for the varieties Secuieni 1 and Irene, due to the existence of performance data for these varieties indicating that they can exceed the 0.3% THC level when grown under Canadian conditions. In addition, Health Canada will treat the crops from these two varieties as a priority for monitoring.

Varieties that are found to exceed the 0.3% limit for THC may be subject to immediate harvest. Stalks from plants harvested under these conditions may be used for fibre.

Varieties which exceed 0.3% THC may be removed from the list next year.

The List of Approved Cultivars applies to all of Canada and no varieties are exempt from routine testing as outlined in the Industrial Hemp Technical Manual.

*Industrial-Hemp has no psychoactive properties following definition of the European Economic Community (EEC); THC content is less than 0.3%. In general, low THC-seed varieties without psychoactive properties are those that have a THC content of less than 1%. (See also No-THC Hemp-seed.) THC= Delta-9 TetraHydroCannabinol.