INDIANAPOLIS — The government shutdown is now over , but the vote to fund and reopen federal agencies could have a disastrous impact on a growing industry here in Indiana.

Tucked inside hundreds of pages of legislation to end the nation’s longest government shutdown is wording that would greatly reduce the total amount of THC allowed in popular hemp products .

That change – now scheduled to take effect in one year – would essentially outlaw thousands of hemp products containing CBD, Delta-8, Delta-10 and other forms of THC, and it would hit Indiana hard.

“It would close our business,” said Adam Kline, president of Heartland Harvest, an Indiana company that produces CBD seltzer beverages. “What we’re doing today and what we’ve done for the past six years would be re-criminalized. It seem

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