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Gloomy Forecast For Cultivation Of Additional Hemp Legislation In Next Congress

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

“I think the Republican Congress is going to slow down all of what's called progress, for lack of a better word, toward having hemp be accessible to folks in all kinds of forms,” says Doug Gansler, former Maryland state AG and chair of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP’s state AG practice.

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A Republican in the White House and GOP majorities in the House and Senate likely will slow federal progress while accelerating state action on defining cannabis derivatives qualifying as hemp for use in dietary supplements, says a former president of a state attorneys general organization.

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