On Tuesday afternoon, Senator Rand Paul joined industry leaders to ring the alarm about imminent threats to legal hemp. Tell your Congressman and Senators to better regulate hemp products, rather than reverting to prohibition!
“At a virtual event hosted by Hemp Industry & Farmers of America (HIFA) on Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) gave a status update on efforts to keep the proposed hemp ban out of appropriations legislation that’s being negotiated by House and Senate lawmakers. He stressed that “we’re at crunch time” to prevent the prohibition from being enacted.
“With much of the executive branch still shut down after weeks of contention on Capitol Hill over unrelated issues, Paul said he remains “amenable” to blocking any measure to end the stalemate without assurances that the hemp market won’t be recriminalized under plans championed by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD).” Read more from Marijuana Moment.
“I’ve also told them—and I think they believe me—that we can do this the easy way or the hard way. The easy way is I give my consent, and the hard way is I don’t,” the senator said, adding that he’s put forward alternative language to require a study and report on state regulatory models for hemp that could inform future revisions to the federal law.
Congress is now under the same pressure felt by Texas lawmakers earlier this year. Massive grassroots advocacy and coordinated industry engagement successfully defended against prohibition at the state level.
Let’s do it again at the federal level!