Roger Stone, a longtime advisor to President Donald Trump, is joining the chorus of voices criticizing the passage of a spending bill with a ban on hemp products containing THC, calling the move a “cheap cop-out.”
After Trump signed the broader appropriations legislation into law on Wednesday, Stone published a blog post slamming the abrupt process through which the hemp language was attached to the bill and ultimately enacted into law, calling it an example of how Congress is in “the age of spectacle and subterfuge.”
Rather than address reasonable concerns about the hemp market that’s proliferated since the crop was federally legalized under the 2018 Farm Bill and develop a “thoughtful law” to make fixes, lawmakers instead chose to bury “sweeping language in a must-pass spending measure,” he said.
“This is not regulation. It is prohibition by the back door.”
“Yes, I agree with restricting non-naturally occurring cannabinoids like delta-8 THC and synthetic analogues,” Stone, who has long supported an end to federal marijuana prohibition altogether, said. “The regulatory gap opened by the 2018 Farm Bill invited exact exploitations: quick ‘hemp’ analogues, untested psychotropic isomers, and retail shelves full of sketchy products. That needed to be cleaned up.”
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