“Everybody in this Room is a Hope Dealer”: The Hemp Beverage Show Ahead of November’s Cliff

Dear Client: The intoxicating hemp beverage industry gathered in Austin this week for the Hemp Beverage Expo with a federal deadline bearing down on it. As BBD readers well know, the 2018 Farm Bill legalized hemp derivatives under 0.3% delta-9 THC on a dry-weight basis, but legislation Trump signed in November redefined hemp so that only products with no more than 0.4 milligrams of total THC per container stay legal after Nov. 12. But HBE’s 1,500+ attendees saw their Hemp