Another Ban. Another “Protect the Consumer” Sales Pitch.
Congress calls its new hemp restrictions consumer protection. Look closely at what the law actually does to adults, familiar products, and independent businesses.
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The DEA Wants Us to Register. Are We Supposed to Celebrate?
A DEA registration portal is not the end of prohibition. The government has studied cannabis for decades; it is time to stop criminalizing people over the plant.
Read the full piece1,066 Pages of Agriculture. So Where the Hell Is Hemp?
The Senate’s new Farm Bill talks about American agriculture for more than a thousand pages. Hemp—the crop Congress legalized through the Farm Bill eight years ago—is conspicuously absent. That doesn’t look like an oversight. It looks like a political choice.
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They keep saying ‘but what about the children?’ The latest youth-use and access data deserve a closer look.
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