Hemp Industry Remains Hopeful: Will Big Alc Come to the Table?

Dear Client:  We got the Hemp Beverage Alliance’s CEO Christopher Lackner and general counsel Michelle Bodian on the phone Tuesday morning, the day after the Senate overrode Kentucky Senator Paul Rand’s effort to strike intoxicating hemp-killing language from the minibus package -- including an agriculture appropriations measure with hemp language -- that would reopen the government.  The verbiage banning intoxicating hemp can be found in Section 781 of the Agriculture bill here; those provisions become law within a year of