In an interview with The Dales Report, GOP Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky is sounding the alarm for the end of the hemp loophole that allows certain psycho-active strains to be sold in states where marijuana is not legal.
A Senate agriculture bill recently had language in it that would ban these products across the country, but Paul was able to remove it. However, he’s not in the clear yet, and he warns that it could still make it into a final appropriations legislation, because it’s still very much alive in the House. “Our best hope is that nothing happens in the next couple of weeks,” he says.
“Instead of having an age regulation or having some sensible regulation, they have written language that we think would kill the industry completely.”
Paul does think that the hemp needs more regulation, but his fear is that banning hemp at a certain level of THC is an “emotional” reaction and would hurt way more workers than it would help because of how often hemp fluctuates.
Check out his comments in the video below:
