COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - The funding package that reopened the federal government on Wednesday could have a massive impact on the hemp industry in Colorado.

Brian Vicente, an attorney at Vicente LLP , said language in the new federal law bans the manufacture and sale of hemp products with more than 0.4 milligrams of THC per container. According to the U.S. Hemp Roundtable , the move will ban more than 95 percent of all available hemp products.

According to a summary from the Senate Appropriations Committee, the law also prevents the unregulated sale of intoxicating hemp-based or hemp-derived products, including Delta-8, from being sold online, in gas stations, and corner stores, while preserving non-intoxicating CBD and industrial hemp products.

Vicente said the ban, which

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