An amendment filed yesterday to a proposed 2024 Federal Farm Bill would place a sweeping prohibition on hemp or hemp products that contain any amount of THC. This would also effectively ban any products containing delta-8 THC.
Hemp plants.
The draft for the $1.5 trillion federal farm bill was published this week by Congressmember Glenn Thomas (R-PA), who serves as Chair of the House Agriculture Committee chairman. The measure would redefine “hemp” under federal law to include hemp grown for cannabinoid extraction. Under one of the proposed amendment, filed yesterday by Congressmember Mary Miller (R-IL), all ingestible hemp products with any level of THC would be federally prohibited.
The amendment would effectively prohibit nearly all products containing delta-8 and delta-9 THC, as well as all other novel cannabinoids.
The farm bill and the proposed amendment will be considered this week by the House Committee on Agriculture, and moved towards a vote by the full House of Representatives if it’s passed through committee.
“[A]n amendment to the Farm Bill has been offered that would federally ban all ingestible hemp products with any level of THC”, states the U.S. Hemp Roundtable. “This amendment from Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) would not only ban potentially impairing products like Delta-8, but it would bring under a new prohibition all non-intoxicating CBD products with any quantifiable amount of THC – meaning 90-95% of the hemp products market would be federally banned.”
The group says that “Even animal feed – which has been approved by FDA for these uses – would be banned. Redefining hemp to include a calculation of THC-A would even wreak havoc in the fiber and grain market.”
[Update: The House Agriculture Committee has now given approval to the amendment. They have not yet given approval to the farm bill as a whole.]
