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From THC gummies to cannabis seltzers, a federal ban could upend a $28-billion industry - Los Angeles Times

·Oct 5, 2026
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In a commercial kitchen outside Raleigh, N. C., Nicholas Hohns spreads a blue-green goo into a gridded mold, making one of his company’s signature products: potent THC gummies, featuring the primary intoxicating compound found in marijuana. It’s a business he might soon have to give up. America’s multibillion-dollar market for impairing hemp products — such as THC seltzers sold at some Target stores and smokable cannabis flowers, and different from the regulated legal marijuana industry — faces potential elimination after Congress voted to close a loophole in federal law that has allowed it to flourish. Advocates for the industry, along with some lawmakers, are fighting to save it. The short-term government funding bill signed by President Trump last month delayed the effective date of the “hemp THC ban” from Nov. 12 to Dec. 11, giving Congress more time to consider regulating the products rather than banning them. “It’s such a weird spot to be in,” Hohns said. “You worked 100 hours a week for the past four years, and, yeah, you made some money. But now you might have nothing to show for it.”Sen.

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