Vol. 1, Ed. 76 — Wed Oct 28: Lawmaker floats reconciliation path to avert hemp ban

Rep. Morgan Griffith proposes adding hemp THC regulation to a post-election reconciliation bill before the December 11 federal limit takes effect; Rhode Island sets a December 4 hemp inventory-report deadline; the Supreme Court will review the federal home-distilling ban. For general information only — not legal advice.

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This is the New Realm Compliance Brief, Volume One, Edition Seventy Six, for Wednesday, October Twenty Eighth.

Top story: Representative Morgan Griffith, Republican of Virginia, says Congress should fold hemp T H C product regulation into a filibuster proof budget reconciliation bill after next week's midterm elections. Griffith told Roll Call he wants his HEMP Act, co-filed with Democratic Representative Marc Veasey of Texas, attached before December eleventh, when the federal limit of zero point four milligrams of total T H C per container takes effect for most hemp products. He suggested pairing it with a revenue measure, such as Representative Beth Van Duyne's bill to tax and regulate hemp T H C drinks like alcohol. Reconciliation needs only a simple Senate majority, though provisions not directly tied to spending or revenue can be challenged and removed.

Around the states. Rhode Island's Cannabis Control Commission has detailed its quarantine option for the state's two hundred one hemp licensees. Inventory over the federal limit can be held after December eleventh, but it cannot be processed, moved, distributed, or sold without federal or commission authorization, and licensees must file inventory reports by December fourth. A commission spokesperson said regulators replaced earlier remove or destroy guidance to avoid forcing destruction while Congress may still act.

South Dakota's health department finalized thirty five changes to its medical marijuana rules, effective November fifth, including a corrective action plan option, in place of an immediate fine, for first time, lower level violations.

On the radar: the United States Supreme Court has agreed to review the eighteen sixty eight federal ban on distilling spirits at home, taking up a Fifth Circuit ruling that the ban exceeds Congress's taxing power. Election day is November third, when Massachusetts votes on Question Eight, which would repeal commercial cannabis sales. And New Jersey's hemp beverage deadline extension still awaits an Assembly floor vote.

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