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Congress Removes Hemp Safeguards—CBD Consumers Left Hanging

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The show opens hot. Hemp lost its attempt to buy more time by hitching itself to the budget chaos, and that route is now closed. Tom Howard frames the week around the budget fight and what got stripped out. The panel zeroes in on the removed hemp language and what it means for full-spectrum CBD in Medicare. They keep coming back to the same problem: the federal government still does not have a clean way to separate hemp, THC products, and the wider cannabis plant. State updates come in from Virginia, Montana, and Missouri. The pace is quick enough that one story barely settles before the next one starts, which fits the tone of the episode. The hosts keep pressing on the industry habit of acting like the labels are cleaner than they are. They argue that hemp and THC products still come from the same plant family, just wrapped in different names. The conversation shifts into language. They question why the federal term marijuana still does so much work when it carries so much historical baggage. The episode leans into the history of the term and the 1937 ban, along with the earlier state-level bans that helped lock it in place. The hosts make the case for dropping marijuana from federal use and talking more directly about THC and cannabis. They also push on de-scheduling and what that would actually mean in practice. There is no clean victory lap. Instead, the episode keeps returning to the practical question of what can really be written into law and what gets left hanging when politics get slippery. Member shout-outs and live questions keep the show grounded in its usual live format. The last stretch adds the familiar loose end energy, with closing chatter, a football sign-off, and a few production notes. It is messy on purpose, and the mess is doing work.

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A budget fight turns into a sharp, funny argument about what hemp legally is.

The episode treats a hemp budget fight as a clean example of how muddled cannabis policy still is. It follows the pulled safeguard language, keeps the Medicare angle in view, and comes back again and again to the federal confusion around hemp, THC, and the labels attached to…

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