Trump Just Delayed the Hemp Ban. The New Deadline Is the Day Government Funding Runs Out. | High Times
Trump Just Delayed the Hemp Ban. The New Deadline Is the Day Government Funding Runs Out. Published: September 3, 2026 12:39 pm Javier HasseByJavier HasseJavier Hasse has spent over a decade covering cannabis, hemp, CBD and psychedelics, in English and Spanish, across some of the biggest media outlets in both…
He signed it Wednesday. Most of the federal hemp restrictions now take effect December 11 instead of November 12. That date is also when the stopgap funding bill expires. One deadline did not move at all.ContentsWhy December 11One deadline did not moveHow it passed‘No further extensions’What happens before December 11 The hemp industry got its extension. It did not get much else. On Wednesday, September 2, President Trump signed into law H.R. 6500, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027. The bill keeps the federal government funded through December 11 and, tucked inside it, delays most of the hemp restrictions that were set to take effect on November 12. Those restrictions come from Section 781 of the appropriations act Trump signed last November. That provision redefines hemp using total THC, expressly including THCA, and caps finished hemp-derived cannabinoid products at 0.4 milligrams per container of total THC plus any other cannabinoids the Department of Health and Human Services determines have similar effects. The U.S. Hemp Roundtable estimates the definition would disqualify roughly 95 percent of the hemp cannabinoid products currently on the market. The industry now has until December 11 instead of November 12. That is twenty-nine extra days.
