A Republican senator who says he has a “great relationship” with President Donald Trump nonetheless is publicly saying he thinks the president is confused about the effects of hemp products.
Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC), who recently led an unsuccessful effort to keep the federal recriminalization of hemp THC products on track for November as scheduled, said in an interview with Spectrum News that he thinks Trump has been “misinformed by his staff” about the issue.
“The president’s got a million things going on. He’s trying to fix a lot of problems, including a 50-year Iran problem,” Budd said. “So we want to support him on those things—but when he’s misinformed, unfortunately, by those in the staff, in the staff in the White House, it’s very unfortunate.”
Hemp derivatives with less than 0.3 percent delta-9 THC on a dry-weight basis were federally legalized under the 2018 Farm Bill that President Donald Trump signed during his first term in office. But late last year, the president signed new legislation containing provisions that will redefine hemp to make it so only products with 0.4 milligrams of total THC per container will remain legal after November 12.
The Senate over the weekend, however, approved
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