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November 18th, 2025 President Trump has signed a spending bill that both ends the longest government shutdown in U.S. history and enacts a sweeping federal crackdown on hemp-derived THC products. The legislation, approved by the Senate in a 60–40 vote and by the House in a 222–209 vote, includes language redefining legal hemp in a way that will ban more than 95% of current hemp extract products, effectively dismantling the multi-billion-dollar industry that emerged after the

November 11th, 2025 Although Congress appears to have reached a deal to end the government shutdown, the vote is being delayed by an unexpected sticking point: hemp. A bill aimed at ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history has stalled over a hemp-related provision included in the Agriculture Department’s funding. The provision would effectively ban intoxicating hemp products by closing the “loophole” in the 2018 Farm Bill, which currently allows THC products der