“This will probably be one of the more interesting debates and discussions in the farm bill,” House Agriculture ... Jim Comer and Mitch McConnell took the lead on legalizing hemp.

A legislative committee and the Illinois Department of Agriculture agreed recently to delay finalizing new regulations governing hemp production amid an outcry of protests from small, independent ...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a bill on Monday to legalize industrial hemp as an agricultural product ... uses and has been grown in the US for centuries.

Hemp is legal across the United States, unlike federally regulated substances like marijuana, because of the 2018 Farm Bill.