Comer backs initiative to delay hemp ban from going into effect in November

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) has thrown his weight behind a bill that would delay the implementation of hemp-banning language in an agriculture funding law set to go into effect in November.

As part of the agriculture funding bill passed in November 2025 to end the government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed into law a provision that lawmakers said was aimed at closing an unintended loophole in the 2018 farm bill that allowed the accessible sale of intoxicating hemp products. The provision created a new limit of allowable hemp-derived THC per product container. The hemp industry has been warning that the new limit effectively wipes out 95% of products on the current market.

The bipartisan Hemp Planting Predictability Act would give the U.S. hemp industry a longer grace