BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho State Police may get the funding to purchase equipment that would allow investigators to distinguish hemp from marijuana after a high-profile case in the state grabbed headlines and prompted a federal lawsuit.

The state legislature’s Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on Friday approved about $240,000 for three testing devices for crime labs, but the funding must be approved by the House and Senate.

In late January, state police seized a semitrailer filled with 6,700 pounds of a green, leafy substance that a trooper believed was marijuana. The driver of the truck, and the owner of the cargo, insisted that it was industrial hemp. Hemp, a cousin of marijuana, has a very low concentration of the THC that gives marijuana its high-inducing properties.

Police sent samples out of state for testing to determine what it was, but have declined to release the results due to the ongoing investigation.

Big Sky Scientific, the owner of the cargo, sought a preliminary injunction for the release of the truck but a federal judge denied it.

The company has said the plants are legal under the new federal farm bill and they are currently deteriorating and losing value.