It is mostly about shifting profits from mom and pop, low regulation hemp industry to wealthy corporations that own dispensaries that have gargantuan regulatory costs that gatekeep out most the competition. This ensures profits are captured by the wealthy rather than small family type setups.

Wealthy former hemp companies will shift to the "legal" weed market, while the mom and pops will get completely wiped out.

> But the provision that was inserted into the government funding bill makes illegal any hemp product that contains more than 0.4 milligrams of THC per container.

Now the online "hemp" industry will shift to selling gummies in "containers" that really equate to individually wrapped. You'll get bulk discounts for buying groups of 30 "containers", but what you get will feel like Japanese-style individual wrapping.

BTW: This was kinda-sorta what I encountered when I bought gummies in Ontario, Canada. The gummy was in a single "container" and had roughly ~0.4 mg THC.

I've seen an incredible incredible amount of ignorance on this topic. Prior to this, I found 1 comment on HN mentioning this last night. On reddit, it's not on the frontpage of r/politics, r/moderatepolitics or anything relevant. I can find it on r/news but like every other thread not a single person is mentioning something very factual.

Rand tried to stop this provision in the Senate. 76/100 senators voted for this ban to remain. 76 senators from across the political spectrum, from every state have decided to secretly try to destroy a $30b industry, 300,000 jobs, and a lot of lives.

Google Docs can do this. Why can't the Congress??

This ability to tack random unrelated legislation onto a bill makes no sense to me.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/deal-end-us-shutdow...

Does this actually have any impact on legal dispensaries, their products, farms, etc?

Does this make it harder to eventually de-schedule pot.

GOP: We are holding firm on a clean extension bill. We will shut down the government for the longest stretch in the history of the nation because we are so dedicated to our pure and honest principles.

Democrats: We will use the same leverage that GOP has used time and time again by forcing them to choose between nuking the filibuster or (in our case, this time) negotiating to preserve health care access for millions.

GOP: We will absolutely not preserve access to health care for a single person (ok fine: one person[1]), but we will reopen the government if you allow us to embezzle millions personally, and also extort the cannabis industry.

Democrats: Sold!

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/11/03/nx...

Don't be apathetic! Letters & phone calls work best, but emails through their official contact page at least get glanced at by an intern.

[1] Find and contact elected officials https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials

[2] 120,000 Texans send letters and petitions against THC ban to Gov. Abbott https://www.kut.org/politics/2025-06-03/austin-tx-thc-ban-la...

At least wait until the House doesn't represent the current majority party in the Senate (like it almost certainly will again eventually) to make that argument.

I'm mildly worried that it's just an attempt to speed up major change the next time a party has a super majority, by planting the seeds early...

The more money you allow in politics, the more politics becomes about money.

These natives certainly know what they're doing with their dependant-domestic sovereign nation.

Cannabis is a bioremediator and absorbs basically every environmental toxin from the ground (pesticides, heavy metals, etc.). Extraction (for CBD and THC oil) increases the concentration of any present toxins.

The only way you know of the problem is by thoroughly testing every batch. Pesticides that are safe at low levels can get concentrated and become really problematic at high levels.

States where marijuana is legal require all of this testing, so the products are much safer. Hemp-derived THC does not require these tests. (Same is true for CBD, but that's a while other conversation...)

I was really stupid to think Republicans wanted a clean CR and Democrats wanted to help people with insurance.

Both sides wanted to slip in something their lobbyists wanted, and they did it. Win.

- individuals will lose some freedoms

- the most powerful companies will get more freedoms

Regardless of what the measure is, or what party it's coming from, it's a significant flaw in the process.

I think I am more interested in the mechanics of how this happens. Why do we need to attach riders / sneak in legislation? What changes could we make to the constitution to avoid this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Analogue_Act

edit: as always, downvotes are invited to rebut. as always, they will not.

> And in a letter Monday obtained by MJBizDaily, representatives from major alcohol lobbies urged senators to thwart Paul’s efforts.

> His “shortsighted actions could threaten the delicately balanced deal to reopen the federal government,” a Nov. 10 letter from the American Distilled Spirits Alliance, Distilled Spirits Council, Wine Institute, Beer Institute and Wine America reads.

https://mjbizdaily.com/trump-backs-hemp-thc-ban-included-in-...