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Reps. Andy Barr and Angie Craig filed a hemp framework into a field that already had several, carrying something none of the others do, which is the White House. North Carolina has spent the same month writing that ban into its own code, with instructions that it survive a federal repeal. Tennessee farmers have already changed crops. And in Alabama, a hearing on rescheduling drew three opponents and one proponent, which is what turnout looks like when a market is six weeks old.
🌾 The framework with the administration on it
🥤 The beverage trade picks structure
🧭 A ban built to outlive its repeal
🚜 Tennessee changes crops
No man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow.
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