GOP political operative Roger Stone says President Donald Trump was effectively “forced” by Republican lawmakers to sign a spending bill that included a ban on hemp products containing THC.
Stone—who blasted GOP legislators in a blog post last week over the inclusion of the hemp provisions in an appropriations package Trump signed into law—says he doesn’t fault the president personally.
“My criticism is of the Republicans in Congress,” he said in a response to a Marijuana Moment post about the blog. “They included this in a provision that the president was forced to sign in order to get the government open again.”
“President Trump is the founder of the modern legal hemp industry in America which he signed into law,” Stone, a longtime Trump ally, said.
My criticism is of the Republicans in Congress. They included this in a provision that the president was forced to sign in order to get the government open again.
President Trump is the founder of the modern legal hemp industry in America which he signed into law
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) November 15, 2025
It is the case that Trump during his first term signed the 2018 Farm Bill, which federally
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