{"id":22963,"date":"2025-09-18T15:40:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cadca.org\/?p=22963"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:30:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:30:03","slug":"cadca-coordinates-letter-to-congress-in-support-of-closing-the-hemp-loophole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cadca.org\/es\/advocacy\/cadca-coordinates-letter-to-congress-in-support-of-closing-the-hemp-loophole\/","title":{"rendered":"CADCA Coordinates Letter to Congress in Support of Closing the Hemp Loophole"},"content":{"rendered":"<style media=\"all\" type=\"text\/css\">\n\n    \n    \/* xs & sm (mobile) *\/\n    @media (max-width: 767.98px) {\n        }\n\n    \/* md (tablet) *\/\n    @media (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1199.98px) {\n        }\n\n    \/* lg (desktop) *\/\n    @media (min-width: 1200px) {\n        }\n\n    \/* custom styles *\/\n    <\/style>\n<section class=\"rte  block_cb6f51e2d2d36d0b38c8b40305b15073\" id=\"block_cb6f51e2d2d36d0b38c8b40305b15073\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <p>This week, 81 national and state public health, medical, law enforcement, and consumer protection organizations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cadca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Letter-to-Close-the-Hemp-Loophole-in-the-FY26-Agriculture-Appropriations-Bill.pdf\">signed onto a letter<\/a> to the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittees and the chairs and ranking members of the full appropriations committees urging Congress to include language in the final FY 2026 Agriculture appropriations bill to close the hemp loophole created by the 2018 Farm Bill by redefining hemp to specially exclude hemp-derived THC and all other psychoactive substances derived from hemp that have similar effects to delta-9 THC \u2013 the main intoxicating chemical in marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>A conference committee between the House and Senate is currently working to resolve differences between each chamber\u2019s Agriculture appropriations bills. The language to close the hemp loophole was in the House version of the bill and the sign-on letter asks Congress to support the House-passed language.<\/p>\n<p>CADCA\u2019s Public Policy team coordinated this effort, and we are so grateful to all of the organizations that signed on, especially with such short notice. 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