
After the 2018 Farm Bill legalizing hemp was passed into law, it inadvertently legalized intoxicating hemp as well. The fallout was mass production of intoxicating hemp products and then a 79% increase in reports of intoxicating hemp exposure to poison control centers nationally between 2021 and 2022. To make matters worse, 30% of those reports were of children 6 years old or under. But the end is in sight. We at SAM guided language banning such products into a pivotal congressional bill. That language is now law. Thanks to all the doctors, researchers, and (most importantly) parents who sounded the alarm.