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Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 11-51-101

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Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Deborah Palm-Egle v. Jon Briggs, Individually and Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation (2024)

Most recently applied in Mark Coleman Helms, II v. The State of Wyoming (February 2026)

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(a) As used in this chapter:

(i) "Corrective action plan" means a plan the department develops in consultation with a licensee to correct any violation of this chapter;

(ii) "Disposal" means activities to alter or treat hemp or hemp products that contain an amount of THC in excess of the amount authorized in this chapter to ensure that the THC is reduced to bring the hemp or hemp product into compliance with this chapter or, if compliance is not attainable, that the THC is rendered inaccessible;

(iii) "Hemp" or "hemp product" means all parts, seeds and varieties of the plant cannabis sativa l., whether growing or not, or a product, derivative, extract, cannabinoid, isomer, acid, salt or salt of isomer made from that plant with no synthetic substance and with a THC concentration of not more than three-tenths of one percent (0.3%) on a dry weight basis when using post-decarboxylation or another similarly reliable testing method;

(iv) "Licensee" means a person licensed under this chapter to produce, process or test hemp;

(v) "Produce" means all acts necessary to produce and market hemp including, without limitation, planting, cultivating, harvesting, cloning, producing seeds, handling, transporting and selling;

(vi) "Process" means converting hemp into another product that contains no synthetic substance and that contains no more than three-tenths of one percent (0.3%) THC on a dry weight basis when using post-decarboxylation or another similarly reliable testing method;

(vii) "THC" means:

(A) Tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive component of the cannabis plant, with the scientific name trans- delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol;

(B) Psychoactive analogs of tetrahydrocannabinol as defined by W.S. 14-3-301(a)(xi);

(C) Any psychoactive structural, optical or geometric isomers of tetrahydrocannabinol.

(viii) "Synthetic substance" means any synthetic THC, synthetic cannabinoid or any other drug or psychoactive substance.

Official source: Wyoming Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wyoming statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.