Congress decided to throw another curveball into the mix. On January 23, 2026, Representatives Morgan Griffith (R-VA) and Marc Veasey (D-TX) introduced the Hemp Enforcement, Modernization, and Protection (HEMP) Act—a bipartisan attempt to regulate, rather than ban, the consumable hemp market that Trump’s spending bill tried to annihilate just weeks earlier.
The Federal Hemp Act: Saving an Industry or Just Slapping a Band-Aid on a Bullet Wound?
by Brooke Blazr | Jan 28, 2026 | High Dispatch | 0 comments
