A Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday seemed conflicted over whether to wade into a debate over hemp and the 2018 Farm Bill, an issue highlighted by the case of a truckload of Colorado-bound hemp seized by Idaho police as illegal contraband earlier this year.

In oral arguments in Seattle, the three judges pressed the hemp’s owner, Big Sky Scientific of Aurora, Colorado, to explain why Idaho’s state courts aren’t best suited to decide whether it should get the cargo valued at more than $1 million back.

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