WASHINGTON — Louisville-based Cornbread Hemp , which makes hemp-derived CBD and THC products like gummies and seltzers, is in the middle of a million-dollar expansion.

Days before the Senate voted on a deal to reopen the government, co-founder Jim Higdon, posted a plea on social media: “Call your U.S. senators and let them know to save the hemp industry in the government shutdown talks.”

Slipped into the legislation to end the government shutdown is a provision to impose a new limit on the amount of THC legally allowed in products.

The goal is to close what some call a “loophole” created by the 2018 Farm Bill that has enabled the sale of products with THC derived from hemp.

Sen. Rand Paul, the only Republican to vote against the deal to reopen the government, said the THC provisi

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