A provision quietly added into the spending bill that reopened the federal government last month banned unregulated hemp-derived products. But there may not be many downstream effects in Clark County due to the state’s already strict regulation.

The new federal regulation will most likely affect states that haven’t legalized cannabis, where producers took advantage of a legal loophole to sell products made from high-potency, intoxicating hemp products, according to Jeff Hickok, a state-certified medical cannabis consultant at High End Market Place in Vancouver.

“These were becoming very big industries because people were figuring out that it’s the exact same product that you’d sell at a dispensary here, but hemp was legal,” he said.

Hemp was legalized in the federal 2018 farm bill and c

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