In 2018, Congress passed the omnibus Farm Bill, which included changes to how the federal government regulates the plant cannabis sativa L., otherwise known as hemp. While attempting to remove only industrial hemp from the federal Controlled Substances list, the legislation’s wording – apparently inadvertently – also deregulated a wide variety of cannabis compounds that have mild psychoactive properties. The loophole resulted in an enormous boom in THC and CBD products, becoming a multi-billion dollar industry by 2020. In 2025, Congress passed an emergency budget bill to end a long shutdown. That later bill included language that will close the THC loophole by November 2026, making the sale of THC products illegal under federal law once again. Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers recently wrote to Wisconsin’s congressional delegation urging Congress to delist THC products, citing the economic boom the market has provided to consumers and farmers alike. Cam Newberry is a co-owner of Dank of America, a cannabis product retail store on Madison’s Williamson Street, and he joined the Monday Buzz on March 9, 2026.
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