THC, hemp
Digest more
Kentucky's two Republican senators are at war over a provision that some say could destroy the state's hemp industry.
FOX 56 News on MSN
Kentucky hemp industry faces federal THC restrictions that threaten their businesses
Kentucky’s hemp industry is sounding the alarm after a last-minute addition to the federal spending bill introduced language that could make most hemp-derived products illegal.
Kentucky hemp advocates say language inserted in the government reopening bill will destroy the industry. Now, they have a year to take action.
Hemp advocates gathered outside Senator Mitch McConnell's Lexington office on Friday afternoon to protest a new federal provision that they believe will essentially kill the hemp industry in the US.
Hemp growers, customers, and supporters gathered outside Sen. Mitch McConnell's office in Lexington Friday to protest strict new THC limitations they say will upend a market that's taken a decade to build.
Kentucky farmers and small businesses are working to draft legislation before the hemp ban takes effect next year.
The Democratic governor of Kentucky says the hemp industry is an “important” part of the economy that deserves to be regulated at the state level—rather than federally prohibited, as Congress has moved to do under a spending bill President Donald Trump signed on Wednesday.
Hemp farmers and producers in Kentucky and across the country are filled with worry as the bill President Trump signed into law to end the government shutdown could end their
WAVE 3 News on MSN
‘Death sentence’: KY Hemp farmers reeling from THC restrictions proposed by Senator McConnell
The Kentucky hemp industry is fighting against Senator Mitch McConnell to keep their THC-infused products on the shelves. And at the moment, McConnell appears to be winning.
While nearly all attention was focused on which Democrats in the U.S. Senate were breaking ranks to pass a bill that ended the record-breaking federal government shutdown, all-but-forgotten Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was inserting language that bans nearly all THC products.
Language banning many hemp and CBD products was included in deal to end weekslong government shutdown. What's next?