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Osage County prosecutors doubled down Wednesday on their contentions that the massive shipment of plant material seized in Pawhuska nearly a month ago is marijuana, not hemp.

District Attorney Mike Fisher in a news release cited the results of the same federal testing that defense attorneys argue prove the shipment is hemp — perhaps noncompliant hemp — and is not marijuana. Two truck drivers and two security officers are charged with trafficking marijuana, which carries a prison sentence of 15 years to life.

Fisher said eight of the 11 samples tested above the state and federally mandated THC limit of three-tenths of 1 percent. Defense attorneys contend that only three conclusively tested above that limit.

Their differences come down to the testing’s margins of error, on which the prosecutors appear to place less emphasis than the defense attorneys do.

If the tests’ margins of error are taken into account, then five of those eight samples could actually be at or below the legal limit. Three are over the 0.3 of a percent limit, no matter the margin of error, but by slim amounts.