Source: Brooke Conrad, CAROLINA JOURNAL, 10/3/19


Smokable hemp continues to stall lawmakers trying to pass the farm bill.  The Senate unanimously voted Tuesday, Oct. 1, to reject the House’s version of the 2019 Farm Act, which would ban smokable hemp by May 2020. Now, it’s up to the House and Senate on whether they will appoint conferees to sort out the two chambers’ differences. Exacerbating the conflict is the fact a federal judge recently threw out a smokable hemp ban in Indiana.

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