ST. PAUL — Minnesota lawmakers and hemp businesses are looking for a way forward as a new federal limit on THC looms over the industry.

Minnesota’s legal hemp industry started in 2022, setting limits of no more than 10 mg of THC per container — a drastic difference from the 0.4 mg THC limit that passed in the federal shutdown deal set to go into effect in a year.

Rep. Nolan West, R-Blaine, who has worked on Minnesota’s cannabis legislation in recent sessions, said when he first heard of the new federal limit, he didn’t believe it. Once he looked at the bill language and realized it was going to pass, he said it was “horrifying.”

“I guarantee you that 99% of senators … Can't even say the word cannabinoid, and much less know what they're talking about,” he said. “Yet it is a dangerous

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