Is it Over for D-9 Beverages?

Dear Client:  As media of all kinds scrutinized the three-bill "minibus" package to reopen the government, the language closing the hemp loophole in the Agriculture spending bill has gotten lots of play (Section 781 of the Ag-FDA Appropriations legislation, to be exact). But the hemp industry isn't sleeping.  Indeed, by yesterday afternoon, several had forwarded your editor a petition from the U.S. Hemp Roundtable to “Stop Hemp-Killing Language in Congress.” The prompt urged supporters to rally around an amendment that