Republican lawmakers repeated familiar concerns about hemp-derived THC products Wednesday during a congressional hearing focused on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
But even as hemp advocates begged federal authorities to regulate the industry created by the 2018 Farm Bill, no immediate change to the status quo is in sight.
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The theme of the hearing in the Republican-controlled House Committee on Government and Oversight was “Restoring Trust in FDA: Rooting Out Illicit Products.”
The FDA has yet to create regulations for either CBD or nicotine vaporizers, lawmakers pointed out.
And now hemp can be added to that list.
“The FDA has failed to effectively regulate hemp-derived products which the industry themselves desperately want to be regulated,” said U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a
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