Smoke shops and other retailers that sell hemp products in Wyoming are facing renewed uncertainty after Republicans in the U.S. Senate added a sweeping federal ban on most hemp-derived THC products to the bill that ended the recent government shutdown.

The measure, which takes effect in a year unless reversed, bars any hemp product containing more than 0.4 milligrams of THC per package — a threshold far below levels found in many edibles and beverages now sold in Wyoming. The move comes just two weeks after the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Wyoming law banning several popular hemp-derived THC variants, including Delta-8.

With Delta-8 products already outlawed in the state, many Wyoming hemp sellers had turned to beverages and gummies containing hemp-derived Delta-9 THC, som

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