Is US Hemp Policy Heading For Farm Bill, Act III?

It could take next farm bill, on lawmakers’ 2023 to-do list, to extinguish inferno of disagreement between FDA and regulated industries over lawful use of hemp-based ingredients in supplements as well as food and non-drug topicals. Before 2018 bill de-scheduled hemp, 2014 bill expanded access to hemp for research.

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The five-year reauthorization of spending for US Department of Agriculture programs Congress passed in 2018 ignited the Food and Drug Administration’s consideration of a regulatory pathway for using hemp in dietary supplements.

It could take the next farm bill, which is on lawmakers’ 2023 to-do list, to extinguish an inferno of disagreement between the FDA and stakeholders in regulated industries over lawful use of

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