Senators split on future of Kentucky’s $300 million hemp industry >> https://www.fox19.com/2025/12/15/senators-paul-mcconnell-split-future-kentuckys-300-million-hemp-industry/

On Monday, Cornbread Hemp held a ribbon cutting facility for its new facility in Louisville, but all the attention was on the legislative efforts to keep the hemp industry alive before new mandates take effect in November. Stephen P. Schmidt has the story.

Hidden in a must-pass funding bill: the beginning of the end for “Temu weed.” Intoxicating hemp products that dodged cannabis rules will be banned nationwide in 2026. thealaskacurrent.com/2025/12/15/f...

A hemp company opened a new production facility in Louisville, but Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul said it's in jeopardy due to legislation passed by Congress last month. He hopes Congress changes course before the hemp THC ban goes into effect next November.

"When those prohibitions take effect next fall, they are expected to wipe out as much as 95% to 99% of the nation’s hemp industry, including almost all of the 2,000 acres of hemp grown in Oregon." www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

Sen. Rand Paul touring Cornbread Hemp facility in Louisville this morning. Owners say they will go out of business along with many in hemp industry unless Congress changes the CR they recently passed putting low THC limits on hemp products.

Austin THC drink brands weigh future as federal hemp ban looms https://www.newsbeep.com/us-tx/87561/ Paige Linney, general manager at LazyDaze, which offers THC-infused beverages, prepares drinks at the Austin coffee shop on…

Really fun being on the G.W. Integrative Medicine Podcast with Dr. Michael Kogan, taking about the recent ban on Hemp derived products. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTEs...

#Virginia #Hemp Businesses Consider How To Pivot With Federal Ban Looming www.marijuanamoment.net/virginia-hem... #VA #Cannabis #Weed #MMJ

Ongoing Marijuana Conflict Between States And Feds Could Provide ‘Guidance’ On How New Hemp Ban Will Be Enforced, Congressional Report Says www.marijuanamoment.net/ongoing-mari...

Hemp Products Would Be Federally Regulated Instead Of Banned Under New Senate Bill www.marijuanamoment.net/hemp-product...

North Carolina breweries turned to hemp drinks after post-pandemic beer declines. A proposed federal ban on intoxicating hemp products has leaders bracing for the worst. #WFDD #hemp #craftbeer #NC

Mamba Brand CEO Calls for Urgent National Standards in Hemp Industry#United_States#Los_Angeles#hemp_industry#Mamba_Brand#Dino_Awadisian

To clarify my last post, Texas didn't fully legalize "recreational" pot use but it DID generate about $2.7 Billion in 2024 tax revenue & $265M, in early 2025, from the legal hemp-derived pot market & limited medical pot program. That's why Hot-Wheels Abbott vetoed the state wide hemp ban.

Hemp beverages sitting next to beer & wine in stores? That's normalization. 10mg THC limits being discussed? That's sensible regulation. This IS the compromise. Don't let DC undo what consumers & businesses already proved works. https://stndhmp.short.gy/bvTtRD #hemp #hempindustry

Democratic Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden hope the bill will pass before a federal ban wipes nearly all hemp products from the market next fall.

INBOX: The Hemp Beverage Alliance is out with a statement supporting the Cannabinoid Safety and Regulation Act from @wyden.senate.gov @jeff-merkley.bsky.social, which would provide a federal path forward for THC-infused drinks after Congress effectively banned them on a 1yr delay last month.

The new federal hemp law sets a 0.4mg THC limit per container. Standard hemp gummies have 50-100mg per package. This effectively bans nearly everything on shelves—wiping out NC's $1B industry overnight. https://stndhmp.short.gy/U1F7P1 #hemp #hempfacts

Washington Tried To Kill Hemp. Lawmakers Just Launched the Counterattack | High Times https://hightimes.com/news/politics/senate-hemp-regulation-counterproposal/

A proposed hemp ban now has an exemption for THC drinks. blockclubchi.co/4pE7ngm

Trump just torpedoed $30B in hemp innovation. One signature killed an industry that farmers, entrepreneurs & consumers built together—legally. This isn't about safety. It's about who gets to profit. https://stndhmp.short.gy/bvTtRD #hemp #hempindustry

Senate Moves To Reverse the Hemp Ban. Congress lit the fuse, the public forced the response, and the Senate finally moved. Full breakdown here. wp.me/pflf86-37m #PotCultureMagazine #420Community #CannabisCulture #Cannabis #Hemp #HempIndustry #HempNews #CannabisNews #THC

Tomorrow at 10 AM, we break down the Senate bill that moves to stop the hemp ban Congress created. The fight is not over, but power is shifting. #PotCultureMagazine #CannabisCulture #Cannabis #420Community #Hemp #CannabisNews #HempIndustry #HempBan #Weed #HempCulture #HempNews

McConnell & Harris slipped language into the spending bill that's about to crush thousands of hemp farmers and small CBD businesses. They said it was just about intoxicating products. It's not. https://stndhmp.short.gy/e0tOOy #hemp #hempfarmers

The Libertarian Party of Minnesota warns that any attempt to reclassify hemp or impose new federal controls would put the state’s regulatory framework at risk and disrupt businesses that have operated legally for years. #mnpol

0.4mg per container. That's the NEW federal limit that just killed full-spectrum CBD as we know it. The Ag Appropriations Act passed Nov 13th redefined hemp—millions who rely on these products are now cut off. https://stndhmp.short.gy/e0tOOy #hemp #CBD

Texas Officials File Revised Rule Banning Hemp THC Sales To People Under 21 As State Expands Medical Marijuana Program https://www.newsbeep.com/us-tx/82938/ Texas officials have released a revised proposed rule to ban the sale of hemp THC products to people…

Virginia businesses eye possible pivots after hemp hampered in federal stopgap spending bill www.newsfromthestates.com/article/virg...

Firefighters Union Backs Preston, Ag Sciences School Shines, Hemp Ban Sparks Backlash!

$1 BILLION industry at risk. Hidden in the govt funding bill: a provision that would ban Delta-8, Delta-10, and THCA flower by November 2026. North Carolina's entire hemp market could be wiped out. https://stndhmp.short.gy/U1F7P1 #hemp #CBD

The Hemp Ban Might Not Be Enforceable, But Here’s What to Expect If It Is

95% of hemp products gone by Nov 2026. That's your CBD oil, gummies, lotions—most of what's kept this industry alive. Small businesses wiped out. Consumer access destroyed. This isn't regulation. It's elimination. https://stndhmp.short.gy/E6iiHS #hemp #hempfacts

U.S. Rep. James Comer voted in favor of the bill to reopen the government. The hemp advocate now has a year to help save the industry he's championed. Read more: tinyurl.com/34fsjs6p

A bill to ban intoxicating hemp products and make it illegal to bring legally purchased marijuana back to Ohio from another state is heading to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s desk for his signature. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/09/o...

Poppi’s $1.95B PepsiCo deal, Health-Ade’s route to a strategic exit, and hemp beverage leaders planning a response to a potential THC drink ban led day one of BevNET Live Winter 2025 in Marina Del Rey

Wyoming’s hemp industry confronts a dire future following a double blow: a federal appeals court upheld the state’s Delta-8 ban and Congress inserted sweeping restrictions on hemp-derived THC products into legislation ending the government shutdown. www.torringtontelegram.com/stories/wyom...

Illinois has a BILLION-DOLLAR hemp market at stake. Chicago's ban would kill hundreds of jobs and devastate an entire industry. This isn't just bad policy—it's economic sabotage. Speak up NOW. https://stndhmp.short.gy/Nql5Lb #StandForHemp #hempadvocacy

Big Alcohol is lobbying to REMOVE hemp THC from shelves—not to ban it, but to eliminate competition. They want the market cleared so they can dominate it. This isn't about safety. It's about profit. https://stndhmp.short.gy/PDszNr #hemp #hempfacts

What happens when a $30B industry built legally under the 2018 Farm Bill gets wiped out in under a year? Joe Rogan says look at who's really behind the federal hemp ban 👇 https://stndhmp.short.gy/PDszNr #hemp #advocacy

Chicago Small Business Owners Oppose Ban on Intoxicating Hemp, But Support Regulation

Virginia businesses eye possible pivots after hemp hampered in federal stopgap spending bill #12OnYourSide

Small CBD businesses are about to be destroyed. Congress just passed a rule so strict that 2 regular gummies would be classified like heroin. Farmers who did everything legal are losing their livelihoods overnight. https://stndhmp.short.gy/E6iiHS #hemp #hempfarmers

“This Will Destroy Us”: Farmers Blast Trump for Reversing Hemp THC Legalization READ MORE:

Virginia hemp businesses face uncertainty after Congress slipped a ban on most hemp-derived THC products into a stopgap spending bill — putting ventures like Richmond-based Bingo Beer, which launched THC seltzers this year, in a bind. virginiamercury.com/2025/12/08/v...

Federal #Hemp Ban Unenforceable? Congressional Report businessofcannabis.com/federal-agen... #Cannabis #Weed #MMJ #Seeds

Virginia businesses eye possible pivots after hemp hampered in federal stopgap spending bill  virginiamercury.com/2025/12/08/v...

Farm-centric Sutter County will consider an outright ban of industrial hemp after more than a year of controversy and compromise.

The recent federal prohibition of most hemp products could hit these local businesses making THC-infused beverages hard, unless new legislation is passed in the next year.

MN Gov Walz calls the fed hemp THC ban 'a surprise to everyone' and 'very disruptive' This matters: States like MN built careful, legal hemp markets. Now the feds are pulling the rug out—hurting businesses & farmers who followed the rules. https://stndhmp.short.gy/PXUA2h #hemp #hempfacts