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The U.S. Congress is caught up in a political haze over what to do with hemp.

In 2018, Congress was told hemp laws were for “rope, not dope.”

But the industry’s hemp debate today is entirely about dope.

When Congress passed the Farm Bill in 2018, it was never lawmakers’ intent to legalize hemp products that could be manipulated to get consumers high.

That is, however, what happened.

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The green wave of product development resulted in a rush of intoxicating “hemp” products that are sometimes harmful, often synthetically produced and nearly always unregulated.

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