Now, the attorneys general want Congress to shutter the market it helped create. In the new Farm Bill, they want the legislature to enshrine in statute the idea that intoxicating cannabis is not federally legal — contrary to what the law currently states.
In other words, they want Congress to say that, by definition, hemp can’t get you high.
The rise of the legal (and intoxicating) hemp market runs counter to the development over the past decade of the highly-regulated recreational and medicinal cannabis industries that voters have approved across the country — a wild west of exotic cannabinoids sold without any of the strict controls of the formal legal market.
“Because of the ambiguity created by the 2018 Farm Bill, a massive gray market worth an estimated $28 billion has exploded, forcing cannabis-equivalent products into our economies regardless of states’ intentions to legalize cannabis use,” the attorneys general wrote.
The bipartisan coalition brings together representatives of a diverse group of states — not just red and blue, but those where recreational marijuana is legal (California, Hawaii), those where it is only legal for medical use (Pennsylvania) and those where it is fully illegal (Georgia).
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