The 2018 Farm Bill also authorized the U.S. Department of Agriculture to establish a regulatory framework for hemp production, including guidelines for licensing, testing, and compliance.

"Based on the 2018 Farm Bill, we invested millions of dollars to create this business," she said. Sen. Mitch McConnell pushed for that original bill, effectively reviving hemp farming across America.

The 2018 Farm Bill, signed into law by President-Elect Trump, decriminalized industrial hemp at the federal level, enabling a surge in new economic activity as states developed programs to ...

A step further in 2018, the Farm Bill removed hemp from the Controlled Substances, effectively legalizing the cultivation, processing and sale of hemp and hemp-derived products at the federal level.