A bipartisan group of U.S. representatives, including four from Kentucky, asked House Speaker Mike Johnson to oppose language that would close the hemp “loophole,” changing the definition of legal hemp to exclude hemp-derived cannabinoids.

GOP Rep. James Comer, Andy Barr and Thomas Massie signed the letter alongside their Democratic colleague Rep. Morgan McGarvey. Notably missing were Kentucky’s two other representatives in the U.S. House, Rep. Brett Guthrie and Hal Rogers.

The letter, dated Sept. 26, was sent less than a week after 58 Kentucky hemp farmers asked Sen. Mitch McConnell not to insert language that would ban certain hemp-derived products into an appropriations bill. The farmers asked for an in-person meeting with the longtime Republican senator, who attempted to insert such

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