A coalition of law enforcement and anti-drug groups is calling on congressional leaders to oppose efforts to delay the implementation of a law that’s set to recriminalize most hemp THC products within months—a policy change that industry stakeholders say would fundamentally upend the market that’s emerged since the crop and its derivatives were federally legalized.
As certain lawmakers seek to push back the implementation timeline—with a delay included in proposed amendments for the latest Farm Bill that’s being marked up in a key House committee on Tuesday, for example—the prohibitionists groups led by Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) are sounding the alarm.
In a letter sent to House and Senate Agriculture Committee leaders last month, the organizations said the law that President Donald Trump signed last year that included the hemp THC ban, which takes effect in November, is “a major public health, safety and consumer protection success.”
“For years, manufacturers and retailers exploited ambiguities in the 2018 Farm Bill’s hemp definition to market highly intoxicating products as ‘legal hemp,’ with many chemically converted versions marketed as far more potent than regular marijuana,” it says. “This created a fragmented and costly enforcement problem: whether a product was unlawful often
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