American Healthy Alternatives Association

1️⃣ in 7️⃣ American adults use these products. 🌾The industry asked to be regulated: testing, age limits, child-safe caps, honest labels. Congress wrote a number instead. On December 11, that number makes him a criminal. 📣 Regulate it. Don't eliminate it. Sign the petition and tell your senators where you stand. usahaa.org

We agree, and are fighting to protect millions of consumers nationwide. 💚🇺🇸

Thank you @amyklobuchar for standing with millions of Americans who may be criminalized by the Hemp Ban. 👏🇺🇸

Senate appropriators released their draft farm budget this week. Nothing in it fixes the hemp ban. The draft FY2027 agriculture and FDA spending bill gives USDA's hemp program about $3 million more, from $10 million to about $13 million. Good news for the farmers who grow it. But it doesn't touch the law that redefines hemp and pulls most products off shelves on December 11. No framework. No new deadline. The 0.4mg cap stands. It's a committee draft, not the final word. Congress can still write real rules before December 11: 21+ age limits, independent lab testing, honest labels, and marketing standards. We take that to Capitol Hill November 17-18. Call your senators and representative at 202-224-3121, then sign at usahaa.org

How Did We Get Here? On Nov. 12, 2025, a last-minute amendment slipped into the bill that reopened the government banned hemp. It gave farmers and shops 365 days to sell off and shut down. At the same time, the White House was working on the biggest change in cannabis policy in decades. Regulate it. Don't eliminate it. usahaa.org

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They served for the freedom to choose. Today every member of Congress will thank a veteran. On December 11, Congress takes one of those choices off the shelf for every adult who chooses legal hemp, veterans included. We’re not asking for a free-for-all. 21+. Lab tested. Honest labels. Regulate it. Don’t eliminate it. Thank a veteran today. Then help keep their choice legal. Learn more how you can help at usahaa.org

There are two hemp bans, and most people have only heard about one. November 12: fully synthetic cannabinoids, the kind the plant can't make, lose their legal status. December 11: a federal cap of 0.4 mg per container takes effect. That is small enough to hit the natural plant, most full-spectrum CBD, and the gummy on your nightstand. Congress is not out of options. Eight bills are sitting in committee right now: • 1 repeals the ban • 2 delay it to 2028, with 40 House cosponsors from both parties • 5 replace it with real rules: 21 and up, lab testing, honest labels, nothing aimed at kids Most of them have Republicans and Democrats signed on together. Not one has gotten a committee vote. AHAA is hemp farmers, shop owners, distributors, brand owners, and the people who rely on them, in nine state chapters, asking Congress for one thing: regulate it, don't eliminate it. Fund the fight at usahaa.org.

The marijuana industry is lobbying Congress to keep the hemp ban on schedule. instagram.com/p/DejicnFlHd5/… In August, the U.S. Cannabis Roundtable brought reps from Trulieve, Curaleaf and Ascend Wellness to Capitol Hill to push back on regulating hemp. In September, the American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp lined up roughly 50 meetings to let the December 11 rules take effect. Their line: “it’s not a ban.” Their next step, in their own words: “federal cannabis legalization.” Meanwhile the Marijuana Policy Project, a marijuana legalization group, is telling its own supporters to ask Congress for sensible hemp regulation instead. AHAA was on the Hill the same month asking for exactly that: age limits, testing, honest labels and marketing rules. Regulate it. Don’t eliminate it. Sign the petition at usahaa.org Source: Cannabis Business Times, Oct 13, 2026; Politico; Marijuana Moment #hemp #RegulateDontEliminate #SaveHemp #HempFarmers #cannabis

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