“No outside force killed the hemp industry. The hemp industry killed itself—and dragged the legitimate full-spectrum wellness market down with it on the way out.”
By Max Jackson, Cannabis Wise Guys
Open any cannabis news site this week and the contradiction stares back at you from the same screen: Missouri’s Senate passes a bill to ban intoxicating hemp products. Texas enforces its smokable hemp ban. And right between them, hemp operators in Virginia are publicly pleading with the governor to save the industry.
The obituary and the plea for resuscitation, side by side.
Hemp operators across the country are petitioning governors, flooding legislative inboxes and declaring war on the regulations closing in from every direction—state by state, with a federal law to recriminalize hemp THC product set to take effect on November 12.
They are not wrong that the industry is ending. But they are wrong about who ended it.
No outside force killed the hemp industry. The hemp industry killed itself—and dragged the legitimate full-spectrum wellness market down with it on the way out.
The Math Was Always The Tell
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