Hemp Gets a One-Year Reprieve – A Collapsing Industry Gets a Stay of Execution?

The U.S. Senate just gave the hemp industry a temporary stay of execution, delaying by one year a catastrophic ban that would have obliterated a $28 billion economic engine overnight. But don’t celebrate yet – this isn’t mercy, it’s political theater designed to give the appearance of reasoned deliberation while the same prohibitionist forces that brought us the War on Drugs prepare to crush an industry that accidentally proved cannabis legalization works perfectly fine.