Pets Will ‘Suffer Needlessly’ If Federal Hemp Ban Takes Effect And Limits CBD Access, Veterinarian Says
The federal hemp ban that was included in a spending bill President Donald Trump signed last week could inadvertently hurt a patient demographic that isn’t usually associated with cannabis: Dogs, cats and other pets who’ve come to rely on cannabinoids as part of their veterinary medical care. As certain GOP lawmakers in Congress pressed for […]
Nancy Mace Circulates Bill To Block Hemp THC Ban That Trump Signed Into Law
A GOP congresswoman is circulating a bill that would stop the implementation of a federal hemp THC product ban that’s part of spending legislation signed by President Donald Trump last week. And she’s pledging to spend the next year fighting to prevent the implementation of the ban. The draft bill from Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC)—who […]
GOP Lawmakers ‘Forced’ Trump Into Signing Hemp Ban, Longtime Ally Roger Stone Says
GOP political operative Roger Stone says President Donald Trump was effectively “forced” by Republican lawmakers to sign a spending bill that included a ban on hemp products containing THC. Stone—who blasted GOP legislators in a blog post last week over the inclusion of the hemp provisions in an appropriations package Trump signed into law—says he […]
States Are Already Rebelling Against Trump’s New Hemp THC Ban
Trump’s shutdown deal quietly recriminalizes most hemp-derived THC products next year, capping them at 0.4 milligrams of total THC per container and banning synthetics. From Texas to Minnesota, governors, brewers and farmers are already signaling they’ll regulate on their own terms instead of treating Washington’s new limit as the last word. TL;DR: Trump’s new law […]
North Carolina Hemp Businesses Brace For Impact Of New Federal THC Product Ban
“We have a year to either figure it out or we have a year to just like, crush it and fight for the plant and hope that we can change this with legislation.” By Brandon Kingdollar, NC Newsline For Hannah DeLange, the most rewarding part of managing Redhead Hemp’s Durham location has been “creating a […]
FUBAR or Not FUBAR? What the Hemp Ban Really Means for Cannabis
This article is an adapted version of the Cannabis Confidential newsletter originally published here: FUBAR or Not FUBAR? The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author. Lemme ‘Splain, Lucy But Wait, There’s More We’re publishing this adapted version this weekend, given the continued confusion around the recent intoxicating hemp ban and […]
Rhode Island’s US Senators Defend Vote To Ban Hemp Despite Concerns It Will Kill A Growing State Industry
“At the urging of the vast majority of the state attorneys general, they voted to table an amendment to strip this provision.” By Christopher Shea, Rhode Island Current Mike Simpson is one of Rhode Island’s biggest cheerleaders for hemp cultivation and the plant’s derivative products—remedies, he believes, that may help where pharmaceutical medicines cannot. It’s […]
Illinois Will Revisit Hemp Regulation Debate Amid New Federal Ban On THC Products, Governor Says
“We’re going to have to look at how we might regulate” hemp “now that we see that the federal government is limiting it.” By Brenden Moore, Capital News Illinois Tucked into the spending legislation approved by Congress this week was a provision banning the sale of intoxicating hemp products—a move that could upend an industry […]
GOP Operative Roger Stone Blasts ‘Cheap Cop-Out’ Hemp Ban That Trump Signed Into Law
Roger Stone, a longtime advisor to President Donald Trump, is joining the chorus of voices criticizing the passage of a spending bill with a ban on hemp products containing THC, calling the move a “cheap cop-out.” After Trump signed the broader appropriations legislation into law on Wednesday, Stone published a blog post slamming the abrupt […]
Top Veterans Group Warns Congress That Hemp Ban Could ‘Slam The Door Shut’ On Medical Research
A leading veterans organization is warning congressional leaders that a newly approved blanket ban on consumable hemp products could inadvertently “slam the door shut” on critical research In a letter sent to House and Senate leaders on Wednesday, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW) executives stressed the importance of “supporting solid scientific […]