“Eliminating a competing channel is not the same as regulating it… Responsible operators on both sides should want rules that protect consumers and make it harder for bad actors to compete.”
By Dylan Raap, Upstate Elevator Supply Co.
President Donald Trump signed a stopgap spending bill last week that keeps the federal government funded through December 11. Tucked inside it is a provision that could decide whether companies like mine are still operating next spring. A federal ban on most hemp products containing THC had been set to take effect November 12. It now takes effect December 11.
That is a twenty-nine-day reprieve, and I’ll take it. The House voted 370 to 48 and the Senate 90 to 6, which should tell us something: there is still room for bipartisan agreement on hemp. But a month is not certainty. And one piece of the ban wasn’t delayed at all. Cannabinoids that the cannabis plant cannot produce on its own still become illegal on November 12. I have no quarrel with that part.
I run Upstate Elevator, a hemp company in Vermont. We make full-spectrum CBD products, and hemp-derived beverages that contain THC. Through a second company that carries the same
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