
Plans to Ban Intoxicating Hemp Take Center Stage in Battle to Reopen US Government
The long-running battle over the future of the US hemp industry has become an unlikely flashpoint in efforts to end

The long-running battle over the future of the US hemp industry has become an unlikely flashpoint in efforts to end

President Donald Trump has called on Senate Republicans to invoke the so-called ‘nuclear option’ to break the month-long government shutdown,

In a major win for the US hemp industry, language which could have seen ‘90-95%’ of hemp products banned has been removed from a major US agricultural funding bill.

Efforts to close the so-called ‘hemp loophole’ in the US, which would have banned the sale of hemp-derived products containing any detectable amount of THC, could be postponed by a year, giving operators room to adapt their operations.

Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is perhaps one of the last people you would think to come out swinging