Barry Gordon, MD

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🔥🔥🔥@ KyleSherman gave an excellent post to explain things REALISTICALLY: “With the new federal spending package now signed into law, there’s understandable confusion about the hemp provisions it contains. Some people call it a “hemp ban.” Others say it will wipe out the industry. Neither is true. This law doesn’t ban hemp. It closes a loophole that allowed an entirely separate market of intoxicating products to operate with no testing, no age controls, and no regulatory structure. That market grew far beyond the intent of the 2018 Farm Bill. In recent years, you could walk into a store in states like North Carolina and purchase products labeled as “hemp” that were every bit as intoxicating as regulated cannabis sold in California. In many cases, the products were California cannabis simply rebranded as hemp. In other cases, they were low-potency flower sprayed with chemically converted THC or synthetic cannabinoids. None of it required testing or safety standards. Consumers had no way of knowing whether the grower used pesticides banned in regulated cannabis markets, including chemicals such as Eagle 20. This wasn’t the industry Congress legalized. The 2018 Farm Bill was meant to support non-intoxicating hemp used for fiber, grain, seed, nutrition, and wellness. The rise of intoxicating hemp was a direct result of a technical reading of the law that ignored its purpose. Businesses built entirely around this loophole were operating in legally unstable territory from the start. The new law restores the boundary between hemp and intoxicating products. It keeps hemp fully legal for the uses Congress intended. Industrial hemp is untouched. Hemp foods, supplements, topicals, grain, fiber, and non-intoxicating cannabinoids all remain protected. The only change is that intoxicating cannabinoids are no longer allowed to circulate nationally without oversight. Those products will now fall under the types of state-regulated systems that already exist for cannabis. These systems are designed to ensure testing, labeling, age verification, and consumer safety. The law also gives the Department of Health and Human Services the responsibility to identify which cannabinoids have intoxicating effects. This closes the door on future chemical workarounds where new forms of THC are created simply to evade regulation. All of this prepares the federal landscape for what comes next. If cannabis is moved to Schedule III or otherwise rescheduled, regulators will need stable definitions for THC, intoxicating cannabinoids, and the dividing line between hemp and cannabis products. This new law provides those definitions. So, clearly this is not a hemp ban. It is a modernization of federal hemp law that brings clarity and safety back to the marketplace. It protects the legitimate hemp industry while ensuring intoxicating products are handled through regulated channels built for consumer protection. With the loophole closed, hemp can operate on stable ground, and the country now has the regulatory footing needed for the next steps in federal cannabis reform.”

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