ST. PAUL — Some of Minnesota’s congressional Democrats pledged Monday, Nov. 24, to try to reverse what is being called an outright ban on hemp-derived THC products, passed with the reopening of the federal government after a 43-day shutdown.

Minnesota’s legal hemp-derived THC industry launched in 2022, setting limits for beverages of no more than 10 mg per container and up to 50 mg for products such as edibles — drastically different from the 0.4 mg THC limit that passed in the shutdown deal set to go into effect in a year.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar said as the lead Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, and with Sen. Tina Smith also sitting on that committee, the two are in a “good position” to try to fix the ban.

“That’s not easy to say in Washington right now, but we may have a f

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