House Hands Hemp One-Month Reprieve From Federal Ban

Dear Client: Hemp’s Hail Mary was answered yesterday by the House of Representatives, which, on its second day back from summer recess, voted in favor of the Continuing Resolution (CR) stopgap bill to fund the government through Dec. 11.  The bipartisan vote in the House (370-48) followed the Senate’s blessing of the spending bill last month [see BBD 08-10-2026] and averted a pre-election shutdown both parties wanted to avoid before the midterms.  But unlike last year’s funding package that included