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November 13th, 2025 | Written by NORML Washington, DC: Federal lawmakers have negotiated and finalized legislation to fund the US Department of Agriculture that includes amended provisions recriminalizing the sale of certain hemp-derived intoxicating products. The appropriations bill is one of three separate funding bills that were included in a package to reopen the government until January 30, 2026. The provisions – which were advocated by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), among

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