Posted on 11/14/2025 6:07:21 AM PST by Sir_Humphrey
The hemp industry is bracing for layoffs, production reductions and billions in lost revenue after Congress passed a government funding bill late Wednesday containing a surprise provision that will ban nearly all hemp-derived consumer products.
Hemp, a derivative of the cannabis plant, was legalized in the 2018 Farm Bill for industrial uses like rope, textiles and seed. But the law’s broad definition created a loophole in federal rules on THC — the psychoactive compound responsible for a high — experts said, allowing producers to extract psychoactive cannabinoids from federally legal hemp. Companies used that opening to flood the market with gummies, drinks and vapes capable of delivering a marijuana-like high.
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Simultaneously, the Trump administration is “looking at” reclassifying marijuana from a Schedule I drug — alongside heroin and LSD — to a Schedule III drug. The move would not legalize recreational marijuana, but it would make it easier to sell, advocates said.
“Duh. Legalize it and den tats da hell outta it!” ROTFL!
I wondered how a bill like this got tacked on to the reopening bill ?? It was Mitch McConnell. What a putz. Can he not just LEaVE already?
This bill threatens many jobs. But it protects the Ky bourbon industry, which has been suffering because younger people are drinking much less alcohol
This is what it is all about - the liquor industry is funding this THC derived from hemp ban. You’ll never convince me otherwise. It makes no sense that I can go buy enough alcohol to kill myself in tons of places, but they want to restrict these hemp based products.
It definitely isn’t about any morality - it’s strictly about protecting alcohol sales.
“This bill threatens many jobs. But it protects the Ky bourbon industry, which has been suffering because younger people are drinking much less alcohol”
That may be why he did it, but Mitch is a doddering old fool and that is a silly position to take. The two drugs are not interchangeable. Nobody drinks because they can’t get weed. It simply doesn’t work like that. Legal weed does not take one dime from whiskey sales.
Funny, but I have read the Constitution many times and I have yet to see amongst the enumerated powers of Congress any that give Congress the right to regulate what substances the citizens may or may not ingest. I did read something, though in one of those Amendment thingys (they called it the “Tenth”) that says any power that isn’t granted to the federal government by the Constitution and is not denied to the states is to be reserved to the states and the people. Weird, isn”t it; it’s almost like the Congress just ignores that whole Constitution thing.
The move would not legalize recreational marijuana, but it would make it easier to sell, advocates said.
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But it would also make young workers even less productive, less willing to show up, more willing to laze around on the dole. A drugged up work force is not productive.
“This bill threatens many jobs. But it protects the Ky bourbon industry, “
But Kentucky senators are against it because it kills their hemp industry.
Agreed. Follow the money.
I don’t agree. Both are ‘coping’ drugs. Younger people have come of age in an era where weed was not stigmatized by illegality. In much larger %’s now, younger people are shunning alcohol…. While embracing THC vapes, drinks, and edibles.
I have no doubt that THC is cutting into alcohol sales. I’ve been told as much by neighbors who worked in marketing at two differed bourbon distilleries.
Rand Paul is against it. McConnell was the main sponsor. At least, that’s what the articles says.
Yes. The 10th doesn’t get much respect
Just means the business goes back to the local dealers. Organized crime and the cartels gets the money and we’ll see possibly increased deaths from weed laced with fentanyl. Sounds like a plan.
Yeah. At least our ancestors did it the right way when they wanted a federal ban on alcohol and actually passed an amendment to do it. They recognized that the federal government lacked the power to ban alcohol.
Pot, weed, hemp, its all the same. THEY ARE DRUGS!
They have zero place in our society. They have ZERO medical benefits. You have all been conned by the people who make money selling to you, including our gubmit.
Incorrect.
Ignorant take.
Not true.
I am being treated for lung cancer. I take a cannabis tincture once or twice per day to relieve some of the side effects of chemotherapy. One side effect has been loss of appetite, resulting in slow starvation, a total loss of 80 lbs. in 12 months. It seems to be turning around now, as I've lost only 1 lb. in the past week rather than 3 or 4 lbs.
Without that relief I would be more inclined to just end it all while I still have enough strength left in my right index finger.
Prayers for you
I disagree. I’ve been on hemp CBD for a several years for various issues. I purchase from a company in Colorado after doing my research to ensure potency and clean manufacturing.
I had planter fasciitis, and after a week I was back in heels. Last year I traveled to Spain where I didn’t wish to have any “contraband” so I left it at home. 11 days later I was feeling all the aches and pains in my joints. knees and back.
So for me whether I’ve been “conned” or it’s all in my head, you or others should not get to decide what I put in my body. It’s not like buying junk from the gas station.
I wouldn’t be surprised if big pharma and the alcohol industry is behind this. Respectfully, just my 2 cents.
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