A U.S. Senate proposal to redefine hemp under federal law to exclude products with intoxicating levels of THC appears dead.
Language that would ban popular hemp-derived THC drinks, gummies and other products under federal law was removed from a spending bill Tuesday amid a standoff between Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, Politico reported.
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McConnell is the former senate majority leader who signed the 2018 Farm Bill into law using a hemp pen.
Since then, McConnell has had buyer’s remorse.
Pressure to close hemp-derived THC loophole
He and other bipartisan lawmakers have bemoaned the “loophole” that many operators have used to rush cannabis products to the market, claiming they are federally compliant hemp.
In both houses of Congress, lawmakers have pushed language
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