The House Agriculture Committee advanced a proposal to ban the sale of most intoxicating hemp products containing cannabinoids during a markup of its farm bill that ran into the early hours of Friday morning.
The change would curb a burgeoning multibillion-dollar industry by amending the definition of hemp, which was federally legalized in the last farm legislation, to cover only “naturally derived, non-intoxicating cannabinoid” products.
The 2018 farm bill inadvertently gave rise to “a massive gray market worth an estimated $28 billion” of potent products especially enticing to children, 21 state attorneys general warned in a Monday letter to lawmakers. ...