How Hemp-THC businesses are bracing for a near total ban

Follow us to Tennessee where hemp farmers are already pivoting in the face of a state ban and soon, a looming federal ban on basically all THC-derived hemp products. Will Congress step in to save this $28 billion industry? 

Fact checking by Sierra Juarez.

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