House Votes Today on Hemp Ban Delay
In our latest Trade to Black, presented by Flowhub, hosts Shadd Dales and Anthony Varrell kick things off with the weekly Check-In Poll, presented by NuggMD, this week looking at consumer awareness of testing standards at unregulated shops. We’ll also look at the hemp ban delay in the news.
The numbers reveal a real disconnect. Only 20% of respondents actually check product testing before buying outside a licensed dispensary. Roughly 27% assume those products are tested, while nearly the same share, 26%, assume they aren’t, and another 20% said they’d never even thought about it. NuggMD’s Tyler Elson points out that unregulated products simply aren’t held to the same testing standards as state-legal cannabis, raising real risks around inaccurate labeling, inconsistent THC levels, and potential contaminants like pesticides and heavy metals. The poll ties into earlier NuggMD data showing 75% of products from unlicensed shops failed contamination testing, and that most consumers already have little trust in unregulated products, even when they don’t act on that mistrust at the point of purchase. We also connect it to fresh Florida data showing the state’s medical patient base stalling near 940,000 even as overall sales climb.
In segment two, Michael Bronstein, President of the American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp, joins for his weekly Insiders Edge segment to break down today’s House vote on the government funding bill, which includes language delaying the federal hemp THC ban from November 12 to December 11. The measure passed 370–48 and now heads to President Trump’s desk. They get into what’s actually at stake — the shift to a 0.4 milligram total THC per container standard that would wipe out a large share of today’s hemp beverages and gummies, the competing regulatory proposals from Andy Barr, Beth Van Duyne, Greg Landsman, and James Comer, and why even parts of the alcohol industry are now pushing for regulation over outright prohibition. Bronstein also warns that the delay’s wording may leave the door open to yet another loophole, and that the broader hemp debate has drifted far from where the movement began.
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