
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

A Republican-led US House committee has advanced a controversial spending bill that would redefine hemp under federal law, placing sweeping new restrictions on popular intoxicating hemp substances such as Delta-8 THC and many forms of CBD oils, a move that industry leaders say could devastate the $30 billion national hemp market.

Steven Brown firmly believes THCA flower is federally legal hemp under the 2018 Farm Bill. But the CEO of Minnesota-based

David Sergi and Kyler Rucker of Sergi and Associates, a San Marcos-based law firm Across the state, lawful hemp retailers

The highly anticipated US Farm Bill 2025, which has previously come under intense scrutiny from the country’s hemp industry, has been released by the Senate Agriculture Committee.