More than a dozen lawyers representing hemp businesses are slamming an “overbroad” and “disastrous” proposal to ban products with THC that’s advancing in the Senate and was recently supported by a coalition of state and territory attorneys general.
In a letter sent to key GOP congressional committee leaders on Friday, the attorneys—whose clients include many operators affiliated with the Hemp Beverage Alliance (HBA)—said that while they agree that “there are bad actors in the hemp market,” banning intoxicating cannabis products altogether would “punish responsible commerce and exacerbate the very problems the AGs seek to solve.”
The letter was delivered just days before the Senate released the text of an appropriations package that contains a version of the controversial hemp language. The chamber then agreed to advance it to a final vote, which could come imminently, but one GOP senator still has a back-up plan to try and block the ban.
“These states are doing the work necessary to create a regulatory framework that protects adult consumers while dramatically decreasing the likelihood of children accessing hemp-derived products,” the lawyers said, adding that the letter from the attorneys general “overreaches in a number of instances.”
Specifically, they said that signatories of the
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