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BumRushDaShow

(163,469 posts)
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 05:03 AM Friday

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 they’re confident in finding a path forward because the language in the funding bill gives a one-year period before the ban takes effect. “We’re 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/

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SunSeeker

(57,297 posts)
1. Republicans sure put a lot of junk in their "clean CR."
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 05:26 AM
Friday

That $500k payday for insurrectionist senators is another one, and the worst.

2naSalit

(98,989 posts)
2. On the...
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 05:42 AM
Friday

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.

Rebl2

(17,228 posts)
17. Everything
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 10:45 AM
Friday

Trump touches, better yet maga republicans, dies. Betcha a lot of MAGAs use pot in various forms.

nuxvomica

(13,784 posts)
5. Yet they've been talking about reclassification to Schedule III
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 08:08 AM
Friday
Trump is considering reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule III drug, alongside some types of testosterone, estrogen and caffeine. Drugs in this classification have a lower risk of abuse and accepted medical uses.

"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

(163,469 posts)
6. "So what the heck is going on?"
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 08:13 AM
Friday

Libertarians vs the RW "Christian" (in quotes), "no drinking, no dancing, no card-playing" Nationalists.

poozwah

(381 posts)
9. puritanism
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 08:22 AM
Friday

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

H.L. Mencken.

can’t spell saints. without aints, and the aints have but one goal…..to make life intoerable.

BumRushDaShow

(163,469 posts)
12. All of those once-suppressed (for obvious reasons) groups are part of 45's loon base
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 08:45 AM
Friday

and helped to propel us into this national nightmare once he let them out of Pandora's Box.

jmowreader

(52,784 posts)
18. Cannabis belongs in Schedule II if you don't want to make a schedule just for it
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 10:59 AM
Friday

Schedule II: high potential for abuse, recognized medical uses.

The DEA considers taking a drug to get high abuse, and that’s why most people use cannabis.

If it was me I’d do what North Carolina did and make a special schedule for cannabis.

Hugin

(37,151 posts)
19. This seems odd to me as well...
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 11:04 AM
Friday

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 doesn’t really align with any of the recent rhetoric coming from MAGA land as warped and disjointed as it has been.

lark

(25,716 posts)
7. Well fuck!
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 08:14 AM
Friday

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

(94 posts)
13. i quit tobacco
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 09:24 AM
Friday

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

(3,833 posts)
14. I stay off smoking or vaping with edibles. I make my own however since the
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 09:41 AM
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stuff on the market is expensive and weak.

He has to destroy every little thing.

MoseShrute

(98 posts)
11. $900,000?
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 08:39 AM
Friday

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.

Nigrum Cattus

(1,108 posts)
16. hemp helps millions of people -
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 10:43 AM
Friday

but cruelty is very important to them
this will just begin a new underground cannabis system
project 2025 again

purr-rat beauty

(849 posts)
20. CBD and CBG
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 01:26 PM
Friday

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

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