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Senate GOP faces politics vs. policy battle on marijuana

December 16, 2022
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The omnibus package is on the path to passage, but the expected exclusion of marijuana banking reform has spawned a battle in the Senate GOP. For months, top Democrats and a number of Republicans had high hopes that legislation allowing…

Congress might have inadvertently legalized a form of cannabis under Trump

Although marijuana remains strictly forbidden by federal law, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Congress quietly amended the statute in 2018 to legalize cannabis cigarettes and vaping products that have similar intoxicants but are made from hemp. The 2018…

Three Republicans Stand in the Way of Federal Weed Legalization

There’s finally bipartisan support for cannabis legislation — but unless it can get past a small group of Republican senators, the bills will continue to fizzle The Capitol Hill Club sits kiddy-corner from Cannon House Office building in downtown Washington,…

Why does California’s public health department treat CBD like poison?

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — the nation’s second most powerful Republican — and California’s Democratic state legislators completely agree on one thing: Marijuana’s cousin hemp should be fully legalized. As the late U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neill famously…

Congress just quietly passed a law that could spark a boom for the $1 billion marijuana-linked CBD industry

This week, a plant that's nearly identical to marijuana is set to become legal to grow in the US. Thanks to the US Farm Bill, which the House passed on Wednesday in a 369 to 47 vote, American farmers will…

Even farmers are shifting from tobacco to hemp and CBD

Will Brownlow, who has been farming in southeast Kentucky for close to three decades, says he first planted 10 acres of hemp in 2016 for the “novelty factor.” This year, he planted 40, and next year he plans to cover…

McConnell Says Industrial Hemp Will Be In Farm Bill

Farm bill negotiators in Congress have struggled to resolve differences over work requirements for food stamp recipients, but the Senate's top Republican guarantees the final version will include legalization of hemp. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday that completing…

How a Pair of Kentucky Pols Are About to Legalize Hemp

On nights that Congress is in session, Rep. James Comer, a farmer from Kentucky, lays down on a fold-up mattress in his office on the fifth floor of the Longworth building and hits the lights by 10:30. Before he does,…

Senate Agriculture Panel Passes Farm Bill With Hemp Legalization

The Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday passed the massive farm bill by a 20-1 vote and overcame an attempt to tighten subsidy payments to farmers. The draft farm bill, officially known as the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, contains more than…

Is Legal Hemp In The Hands Of Mitch McConnell?

The future of hemp legalization is up to Mitch McConnell. Period. House supporters of the idea tried to include legalization measures into the big farm bill lawmakers have been considering, but were advised to back off McConnell’s taking care of…