Trump signs farm bill legalizing hemp

Описание: National regulated production and marketing of industrial hemp became legal on Dec. 20, when President Donald Trump signed the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, removing hemp from the list of controlled substances.

The House of Representatives voted 369-47 for the legislation on Dec. 12, after the Senate approved it 87-13 on Dec. 11. President Trump called the bill a bipartisan success.

“Now to the farm bill,” said Trump. “We are proudly joined today by so many members of Congress, Republicans, Democrats, who worked very, very hard on this bill. This was really an effort of everybody. It was a bipartisan success.”

The 2018 Farm Bill allows farmers to cultivate hemp crops with less than 0.3 percent concentrations of the psychoactive compound delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). The bill also allows farmers to get crop insurance, apply for loans and grants, and furthers research and development protection for industrial hemp.