Hemp industry plans next move after Trump signs THC ban
Source: The Hill
11/13/25 5:40 PM ET
The hemp industry is regrouping and gearing up for a significant lobbying blitz following passage of the government funding package that contained a provision they say would outlaw nearly all hemp products. The legislation clarifies the definition of hemp to ban all hemp-derived products containing THC, which were legalized by the 2018 farm bill.
Legal hemp products are limited to a total of 0.4 milligrams per container of total THC, or any other cannabinoids with similar effects. Cannabinoids that are synthesized or manufactured outside the plant, like delta-8 THC, are banned.
The Food and Drug Administration now has 90 days to publish a list of natural and synthetic cannabinoids and provide a definition for container. According to the U.S. Hemp Roundtable, the vast majority of hemp products on the marketplace surpass the 0.4 milligram threshold, even the nonintoxicating ones.
In a memo released Thursday, the trade group said the hemp industry took a serious blow, but theyre confident in finding a path forward because the language in the funding bill gives a one-year period before the ban takes effect. Were disappointed, but not defeated, the group said. Our new mission, friends: 365 days to regulate, NOT ban.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5605017-hemp-industry-regulations-future/
SunSeeker
(57,249 posts)That $500k payday for insurrectionist senators is another one, and the worst.
2naSalit
(98,891 posts)Payout thing in the Bill; it's so unpopular in the House, Rs included, that there will be a stand alone vote on it which also means that if that passes the Senate will have to vote again since the language will change. Language has to match in both chambers.
quaint
(4,370 posts)
?w=645&h=363&crop=1Trueblue Texan
(3,994 posts)Hemp, solar, tourism.
Rebl2
(17,213 posts)Trump touches, better yet maga republicans, dies. Betcha a lot of MAGAs use pot in various forms.
nuxvomica
(13,776 posts)"We're looking at reclassification and we'll make a determination over the next I would say over the next few weeks, and that determination hopefully will be the right one, Trump said in a recent news conference. It's [a] very complicated subject.
While this shift will not federally legalize marijuana, there are billions in untapped potential in the hemp industry, according to a report by Grand View Research (3), that could have a major impact on the U.S. economy and the stock market.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-rewriting-federal-marijuana-regulations-145900589.html
So what the heck is going on?
BumRushDaShow
(163,279 posts)Libertarians vs the RW "Christian" (in quotes), "no drinking, no dancing, no card-playing" Nationalists.
poozwah
(380 posts)Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H.L. Mencken.
cant spell saints. without aints, and the aints have but one goal
..to make life intoerable.
BumRushDaShow
(163,279 posts)and helped to propel us into this national nightmare once he let them out of Pandora's Box.
jmowreader
(52,781 posts)Schedule II: high potential for abuse, recognized medical uses.
The DEA considers taking a drug to get high abuse, and thats why most people use cannabis.
If it was me Id do what North Carolina did and make a special schedule for cannabis.
Hugin
(37,125 posts)McConnell taking a parting shot at Paul and the Libertarians? Was he trying to get the Democrats to not vote for the funding bill?
It doesnt really align with any of the recent rhetoric coming from MAGA land as warped and disjointed as it has been.
lark
(25,698 posts)I am one of the few people actually addicted to pot and this will fuck me up! I was already strongly considering quitting smoking in 2026 because bad lungs run in my family and I recently got a not good chest xray - no lesions but possible emphesema. I was going to switch to edibles and see if I could sleep with just those, but I even that may not be possible. krasnov fucks up everything he touches & I am so freaking tired of getting everything good sullied and destroyed.
GRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oldinmtdem92
(91 posts)using edibles but it was a battle getting it ,legalized the first time, i hate Nazis, if you are anti antifa, what are you ?
travelingthrulife
(3,782 posts)stuff on the market is expensive and weak.
He has to destroy every little thing.
Blue Dotty
(162 posts)https://readsludge.com/2025/11/11/alcohol-industry-groups-push-to-ban-thc-drinks-in-government-funding-bill/
Thanks, Big Alcohol. Wouldn't want folks to give up their hangovers, now would we?
MoseShrute
(97 posts)I read that was the amount of bribe (sorry I mean political donation) paid to Senator Turtle from KY by alcohol industry groups to insert this provision into the bill.
Paladin
(32,005 posts)mzmolly
(52,542 posts)Nigrum Cattus
(1,092 posts)but cruelty is very important to them
this will just begin a new underground cannabis system
project 2025 again
purr-rat beauty
(828 posts)helped me with pain and appetite through my stage 3 head and neck cancer treatment
These products help lower the need or use of narcotic pain meds
He's abusing his power to extort, he's waiting for the forced bribe to be offered