The Republican chair of a key congressional committee is joining with farmers to push for a delay in the planned enactment of a federal law that threatens to recriminalize hemp-derived THC products.
“The hemp industry is facing significant challenges and growing uncertainty, and is long past time for Congress to provide farmers and business owners with the clarity they need to succeed,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said at a press conference on Thursday. “This uncertainty is not abstract. It’s impacting real people, real jobs and real communities all across our country—particularly in rural America.”
Comer is calling on colleagues to pass a new bill that was filed in the House this week, the Hemp Planting Predictability Act, that would push back by two years the implementation of legislation President Donald Trump signed last year to reverse the federal legalization of most hemp-derived products that he had approved during his first term in 2018. The renewed ban is currently set to take effect this November.
“The crisis that are facing everyone in this room that’s involved in hemp, it’s not a crisis of supply and demand. It’s not a crisis of a trade dispute or
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