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This week we talk to Courtney Moran LL.M., chief legislative strategist at Agricultural Hemp Solutions, a group that is lobbying Congress to secure a science-based legal hemp concentration limit of 1% THC in the definition of hemp.

Moran has been active in hemp policy for nearly a decade and was part of the team with Senator Mitch McConnell that drafted the original hemp language in the 2018 Farm Bill. She says there was much discussion then about the arbitrary nature of the .3% THC limit, but that now is the time to raise the limit to 1% for the sake of the farmer and the success of the industry.

\\u201cThe key piece to all of this,\\u201d she said, \\u201cis farmers first. If we don\\u2019t protect our farmers and secure a solid path for them, then we don\\u2019t have a crop to enter into the supply chain, we don\\u2019t have a value chain. And so while there are a lot of issues we\\u2019re dealing with \\u2013 with processing, with end products, with FDA \\u2013 we have to be cognizant of what\\u2019s happening in the field with the farmers.\\u201d

Agricultural Hemp Solutions has recently launched the Crossroads Campaign which aims to lessen the legal burdens and economic hardship for farmers and hemp agribusinesses by addressing the common concerns with the USDA IFR, specifically 15-day harvest window, non-representative sampling methodologies, mandatory testing of every lot, DEA registered labs, and an arbitrary negligence THC threshold.

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